Mary Brotherton

Posts Tagged ‘Writing’

Probably one of the hardest things, for many who try to maintain an active web blog, is keeping the content fresh. For me, it’s not that I don’t have current ideas and interesting things to say, but rather finding time to keep my own site updated. With the highly successful social networking sites and business [...]

I accepted the challenge to record my life for the next year with one photo per day. Taking photos is easy. Choosing just one to represent my entire day is a little more difficult. I think I have resolved my issue by using my otherwise almost dormant photoblog to record every one of the next [...]

If playing with your muse or writing flash fiction hasn’t helped you move along in your writing project, here’s another idea to consider which often helps some writers kick-start their big project: Journal! Oh, you say you don’t care to write in a journal? Then why not sit down with paper and pen, think of [...]

1. Overcoming the monster — defeating some force, which threatens such as in Star Wars or James Bond. 2. The Quest — typically a group sets off in search of something and usually finds it as in Watership Down, Pilgrim’s Progress, Lord of the Rings. 3. Journey and Return — the hero journeys away from [...]

Condensing George Polti’s list of 36: 1 – [wo]man vs. nature 2 – [wo]man vs. man 3 – [wo]man vs. the environment 4 – [wo]man vs. machines/technology 5 – [wo]man vs. the supernatural 6 – [wo]man vs. self 7 – [wo]man vs. god/religion