DON’T: Don’t write the same things everyone else writes. I recently had a conversation with a professor on the admissions committee at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. I had applied to the School’s Master of Fine Arts Writing Program, and she called me on a Sunday night to give me a surprise ...
Writing business letters is a forgotten art. The Internet has made us lazy writers. With a few keystrokes, we can kick off a short e-mail without thinking much about content, much less formatting. Have you ever reviewed your own e-mails and discovered misspellings, incomplete sentences, formatting mistakes, and grammatical errors? Usually we think nothing about ...
Once again, Jack London shocked me with his amazing writing on nature and animals. White Fang is a spectacular book that will leave you begging for more. It is a book on the lives of a generation of wolves, but eventually centers around one wolf, White Fang. He is born into the world in a ...
Last time I told you how to create quality live action, stop animation sketch comedy. Now I touched on the fact that one of the most important parts of making sketch comedy is the writing, so I figured that I would take this time to expand a little further into what it times to write ...
