by Jocosa Wade | Jul 1, 2020 | Creativity, Inspiration, Snow Queen, Writers life
My handwriting loops like a cowgirl’s lasso whenever I’ve fallen deep into a story. It starts small and expands until the letters are no longer contained within the lines on the page. Grammar and writing rules are also lost— they vanish first, which is no surprise...
by Jocosa Wade | Jun 24, 2020 | Inspiration, Revision, Snow Queen, Writers life, Writing tools
One of the most riveting scenes in film isn’t from Hitchcock and has nothing to do with mysterious identities à la Jason Bourne. The scene is from a movie based on a memoir about chess— Searching for Bobby Fischer by Fred Waitzkin. Don’t Move Until You See It. Those...
by Jocosa Wade | Jun 17, 2020 | Creativity, Inspiration, Revision, Snow Queen, whores of negativity, Writers life, Writing tools
I’m writing. Two words on the page followed by eight. No telling how much farther I’m going to get because this week has lacked productivity. Monday was great. I finished the last of the singing-arc chapters of Kaitlyn’s story. The emotional momentum and counterpoint...
by Jocosa Wade | Jun 11, 2020 | Inspiration
Back in my theatre days, I was given a mask-shaped pillow with the tragic face on one side and the comic face on the other. Sad. Happy. For years, to keep it pristine, I kept it inside the original cellophane. But sometime after my youngest son entered his teens, I...
by Jocosa Wade | Jun 4, 2020 | Creativity, Inspiration, Writers life, Writing tools
A funny thing happened on the way to revising my manuscript in thirteen weeks— Bang the Drum, Toot the Horn— I’ve become spellbound by my protagonist. I’ve always liked her. How could I not, she was, after all, sort of, well— me. Especially in the beginning when I...
by Jocosa Wade | May 27, 2020 | Books, Inspiration, Revision, Writers life, Writing tools
My introduction to F. Scott Fitzgerald was The Great Gatsby. I read it in school like everyone who did their homework. My teacher, Mr. Meltzer (notice how I can recall his name), must’ve led discussions on this famous writer’s themes, style and narration— I remember...
