In the Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche identifies two major figures from which during the creation of art (and life) we vacillate between. On the one hand we have Apollo; god of music, dance, truth and prophecy he is widely regarded as the rational, ordered form giver to life and art.
Writing a story is like creating a sculpture. It can be whatever shape you want it to be. It’s ultimately your artistic expression, and how it makes you feel is more important than how it makes other people feel.With that said; if you’d like other people to feel the same…
I find that when I work with my students on their stories, plot is often not what they struggle with. There’ll be moments where we have to work out where a story goes together, but more often than not students come to their sessions brimming with ideas like where their…
How does one write ‘like a poet’? Maybe we should start by asking which poet we want to write like. After all, writing like Dr. Seuss will be different to writing like William Shakespeare. Penning a spoken word, different to a bouncing limerick. But there are some commonalities to poetic…
