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Story Institute – RamblingVerser Episode 33 – Believe Your Characters

Do you believe in your characters? OK, but do you have faith in your characters to live beyond the time you put them on paper? Is there a difference? Listen and engage in the writing prompts.
 
Featured Quote:
Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
Edith Hamilton
 
Inspiration for this week’s conversation:
Six Characters in Search of an Author is the most famous and celebrated play by the Italian writer Luigi Pirandello
  
Featured Poem: The Computation
By: John Donne
 
FOR my first twenty years, since yesterday,
I scarce believed thou couldst be gone away ;
For forty more I fed on favours past,
And forty on hopes that thou wouldst they might last ;
Tears drown`d one hundred, and sighs blew out two ;
A thousand, I did neither think nor do,
Or not divide, all being one thought of you ;
Or in a thousand more, forgot that too.
Yet call not this long life ; but think that I
Am, by being dead, immortal ; can ghosts die ?

Story Institute RamblingVerser – Episode 25 – Time Back from Beyond

Time Back from Beyond…New focus and new writing prompts… Quote of the week: “I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.” ~ Samuel Beckett Short Story Focus and Topic: “The Open Boat” ~ Stephen [...]

Quote – Love & Time

“Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.” John Donne