I read the most touching article last week. Written by Amy Krouse Rosenthal, a well known children’s author and filmmaker. It was titled, “You May Want to Marry My Husband.” It was written along the lines of a match.com profile, and it described the charms, kindnesses, and deep expressions of love her husband had shown her…
Tag: The writer’s life
Airing my own dirty laundry: a writer’s Black Moments
Writers understand black moments. They’re our bread and butter and appear in every novel. First we establish our protagonists’ worse fears, then we throw rocks at them, pushing them toward their nightmares. From the first pages we frustrate, annoy and confound them. With slightly dysfunctional glee, we deepen their problems. With Donald Maass’s voice ringing wickedly in…