Why is Oprah the queen of interview TV? Because she gets down to the dirt, the nitty-gritty, the very core of the people she interviews. She skilfully asks all the intimate and pertinent questions that we want to ask, and then she asks the questions we didn’t even think to ask. She finds out the… [Read more…]
January 23, 2011 by J. W. Hankins
I’m big on the process of writing. It helps me build and bring life characters, their stories, and the worlds they live in. Before I configured my own writing process, I had a pile of unfinished stories for one reason or another. Either the characters were flat, too many plot holes, I didn’t know where… [Read more…]
January 9, 2011 by J. W. Hankins
So, you’re sitting at your desk at work, standing in line at the grocery store, or driving down the road and it hits you. Seemingly out of nowhere, you have a new idea for a story. Images flicker through your mind, you see characters within vague scenes. You can hear sound bites of dialog you’ve… [Read more…]
March 6, 2011 by J. W. Hankins
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