writing
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Last week, I wrote about owning your own shadow. This week, I’ve been reading Robert A. Johnson’s book on The Fisher King and The Handless Maiden and again, it’s resonating. Hands, writing, feelings…. We’ve done a weird inversion of the feeling and the rational. We increasingly replace rational solutions on a societal level – the…
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Perhaps since it’s October and Halloween is just around the corner, the dark, the spooky, the unseen are more on my mind. Robert A. Johnson, a Jungian psychologist, wrote a slim book, Owning Your Own Shadow: Understanding the Dark Side of the Psyche that is very helpful for artists. He’s also the author of She, He, and…
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The few things I’ve learned so far from the Alexander Technique at Body Chance are that your head is always in motion, your head and neck are attached behind your nose (focus on that while writing or walking and see what happens), your arm is a larger-than-imagined hinge and the glide hinges are at the…
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I use Grammarly’s online proofreader because borrowing is fine for books, a cup of sugar, or for good luck on your wedding day, but you want my work? Pay for it! Don’t copy – steal like an artist. And if you’re going to steal like an artist, please know what you’re doing. Learn about the artful manipulation of…
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“…the human capacity for achieving new meaning is linked to our capacity to let life make a fool of us. If we can look into the mirror and recognise the fool, if we can unflinchingly assert that the fool is satisfied, if we can welcome the uninvited guest of ourselves at any moment, even when…
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Take a look at 5 TV Rules That Aren’t Rules Anymore. Some of the best writing in any medium is on long-form television right now (and yes, I know some of them are adapted from books). Point being, challenge your assumptions. Take risks. Think about what scares you the most and go do it (keep it…
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The University of Notre Dame has been running a series for years now called What Would You Fight For? Each week during football season, they televise one and post it online. What would you fight for? Seriously. Is there anything and if not, why not? It’s another way of asking, “what are you passionate about?”…
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In an ongoing conversation about men and women with my friend, Chuck, he remarked that men often fall on the idiot side of stupid where women are concerned, whether it’s about seeing what’s right in front of them, breaking old patterns or choosing destructive over healthy. Women have their own issues around bad judgment, such…
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Quite possibly the first in a sporadic series…. This year, I returned to acting. I studied theater in college and worked both sides of the camera when I came to Hollywood. This time around, a remarkable number of things fell into place. I rejoined SAG-AFTRA and started meeting amazing people. Much of it led me…
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Lee Stoops is back for week 3 of guest blogging: Understanding the Science of Imagination and Memory Memory and imagination are interchangeable in a way because of the way they inform one another. This is especially true in storytelling. And it’s kind of like a closed loop, a Mobius strip, with no clear chicken or…
Diane Sherlock 
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