[first lines] Brian: Some of the best writing in New York won’t be found in books, or movies, or plays, but on the benches of Central Park. Read the benches, and you understand. —5 to 7, 2014. WRITING Three Powerful Techniques To Harness A Reader’s Curiosity | WRITERS HELPING WRITERS® 6 Revealing Characterization Questions to Get to Know Your… View Post
Curly: Do you know what the secret of life is? Mitch: No. What? Curly: This. [He holds up one finger.] Mitch: Your finger? Curly: One thing. Just one thing. You stick to that and everything else don’t mean sh*t. Mitch: That’s great, but what’s “the one thing”? Curly: That’s what you’ve got to figure out. —City Slickers, 1991. We… View Post
Bill: When I started to follow people, specific people, when I selected a person to follow, that’s when the trouble started. -Following, 1998. WRITING The Innovative, Intuitive Way to Organize Your Novel’s Scenes | Live Write Thrive How to Write a Bestseller: 747 No. 1 Novels | Now Novel Grip-Lit: Five Elements Your Story Must Include If You’re Writing… View Post
Elle: After we’ve seen so many copies of something over so many years, we’re not all experts who can stand before an original and understand it. It takes our breath away. Therefore, without the existence of copies, we wouldn’t understand originals. – Certified Copy, 2010. WRITING 5 Ways to Create Strong Internal Conflict | Live Write Thrive The Write Stuff:… View Post
Dave Harken: Listen to me, you stupid little runt. I OWN YOU. You’re my BITCH! So don’t walk around here thinking you have free will because you DON’T. I can break you anytime I want! – Horrible Bosses, 2011 Bad bosses don’t just exist in the movies. While we are laughing at some outrageous scenes in the movie, we… View Post
