Big Thoughts, Human-sized Canvas
This is the scene that launches the rest of the movie. Everything beforehand leads to Morpheus’s offer, and everything afterward springs from Neo’s decision.
The first Matrix movie was released on March 31st, 1999. Since then, a…
Tomorrow is the first day of Script Frenzy, a month-long race to complete a 100 page script. In support of participants, in April I’ll chase down some excepts from scripts and passages about writing. If you want to see more from scripts, post a response to any writing prompt in the form of script-like dialogue. [...]
Anna Sewell’s one and only published book was Black Beauty. She wrote it while in declining health, in her early to mid 50′s, publishing at the age of…
Pure modernity of form is always somewhat vulgarising. It cannot help being so. The public imagine that, because they are interested in their immediate surroundings, Art should be interested in them also, and should take…
QuoteSnack offers fresh quotes daily, attributed and linked to a confirmed, published source. In addition, I’ll sometimes post a writing prompt with simple instructions. The next post will be a quote that has something to do with the prompt, so you can take a peek at differences or similarities in how someone else relates to [...]
a Romany saying
She listened to the waves wash ashore, and the whistle of the wind as it bored through the hole in the longstone. The shingles shifted underfoot when she stepped closer. The moon was near to setting, but still visible in the…
Anybody can behave well when things are going smoothly. Now you said to-day, at that iniquitous club, that you were not a womanly woman. Very well: I don’t mind. But if you are not going to behave…
QuoteSnack offers fresh quotes daily, attributed and linked to a confirmed, published source. In addition, I’ll sometimes post a writing prompt with simple instructions. The next post will be a quote that has something to do with the prompt, so you can take a peek at differences or similarities in how someone else relates to [...]
Maybe he’s right.
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Lude knows every bar, club and gatekeeper at every bar and club. Hollywood has always been mother’s milk to Lude. Mothers tongue. Whatever. Unlike me, he never…
I pass the lighted window of a shop where perfume is sold. The window is filled with pieces of colored glass, tiny transparent bottles in delicate colors, like bits of a shattered rainbow. Then all at once my sister touches my…
QuoteSnack offers fresh quotes daily, attributed and linked to a confirmed, published source. In addition, I’ll sometimes post a writing prompt with simple instructions. The next post will be a quote that has something to do with the prompt, so you can take a peek at differences or similarities in how someone else relates to [...]
