Digital information – photographs, blogs, videos, tweets, Wikipedia articles, reviews, descriptions, stories, and myriad other types of content – surrounds us.
Create the overview of your story; including an outline, notes about characters (possible names, descriptions, "back stories", etc. ), places, era all the little things that go into a larger story.
Throughout, he cites an abundance of science fiction and fantasy authors, and includes concise descriptions of stories as well as an appendix on Newton's laws of motion.
They often included brief job descriptions, internship stories from students, in addition to information on the required skill sets needed for the area – useful for comparing against where my own strengths lie.
Falling between these two is The Book of Imaginary Beings, a compendium of brief, almost stark descriptions and stories about fantastic animals from many older texts and sources, including the bestiaries of medieval Europe and their classical antecedents, Chinese and Indian myth, folk tales, the legends of indigenous peoples, and the minds of writers such as Kafka and Poe.
And within each of those seemingly anodyne descriptions lie stories that uncover other, more disturbing aspects - the decline of fishmonger skills, the neglect of New Orleans and its inhabitants' efforts to use food as a means of civic regeneration, the consequences of the rise in food prices - each presented with exquisite filleting to present the meat of the issue.
Through your words, descriptions, personal stories and essays, simply be who you really are.
When he came to write The Big Sleep, Chandler "cannibalised" (his own description) his stories.
He partway justifies this self-description with stories about himself, though his meanness seems fairly trivial (lying to girlfriends) and his shallowness is compromised by his formidable depression.
Westerns, epics, swashbucklers, 50s sci fi, boys' own adventures, three-hanky weepies, romances, comedies, The Wizard of Oz over and over and books of all descriptions; every story, every word, every image went into the dark quiet of my psyche to brew.
"If there is no active listener," CIANT explains in the project description, "the stories of our history will silently pass out of our minds".
