Has anyone ever had a compulsion to write something . . . but it doesn't seem to have any direction? I've been getting this a lot lately. My muse will provide me with characters and even some seemingly unrelated plot points, but nothing to connect it and not final direction that we're supposedly heading toward. This often leads to writing one ( Read more... )

In English, we had to read a short story, which was a character analysis. Our assignment? Write a short one about anybody we wanted. At first, mine was about a guy in my class. The first two paragraphs still are. However, as I wrote it, it evolved into an actor, who, I had no particular one in mind, different ones kept flashing through my mind. So ( Read more... )

I think older people give good advices, since they regret not being able to give bad examples.  Many of the things which we actually feel proud of, or have brought us some benefit, have been those of which we have regretted or embarrassed us at those moments...If we would recognize the reasons that impel us to act, we would often be ashamed of our ( Read more... )