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by Ryan Lanz Should you include a prologue in your novel? I have known writer friends who have debated this for years. Some love them, some hate them, but in this post I’ll detail what I think of them. There are many different schools of thought when it comes to prologues, and the […]

via To Prologue or Not To Prologue — A Writer’s Path

Variety has been given access to the first-look image for John Patrick Shanley’s “Wild Mountain Thyme,” starring Emily Blunt and Jamie Dornan. The film, which has just wrapped production on location in Ireland and New York, is being sold at AFM by HanWay Films. The film, an adaptation of Shanley’s Broadway smash hit “Outside Mullingar,”…

via First Look: Emily Blunt and Jamie Dornan Star in ‘Wild Mountain Thyme’ (EXCLUSIVE) — Variety

The Art of Flight What wings accumulate is not air but space, an exemplar of restraint defied. I listen and hear feathers ruffling in the shadows, a vibration that swells until it becomes flight or regret, the retrieval of our bodies from this dream of ascent. The art of flight is one of disturbance, […]

via The Art of Flight — O at the Edges

Fiction is important to me. I get a great deal of pleasure from visiting the people and places created by the imagination and hard work of authors around the world. I read 150ish books a year and I buy twice as many as I read, which is why my TBR pile stand at more than […]

via An Avid Reader’s Wish: I want a bigger share of the money I spend on books to go to the people who write them. — Mike Finn’s Fiction

Subdued in my skin and bones, empty of poetry, tired of writing, living a void, avoiding lexically appealing expression, longing to die in the arms of a softly worded phrase, grabbing at air, denying a stare at my soulless soul, a cry for help from an immeasurable hole.

via Empty of words — I’ve started so………..

Standing on the sand, I watched the boats afloat I thought to myself; I must look right cinematic, brilliant, deep, mature all eyes were on me, because I stood out how they must love me… As those ships drifted by, I’d be thoughtful roll my eyes, look to the ground with all the girls watching […]

via Cinema Child — One of These Years…

Cornerstone Films has closed the first deals for Phyllida Lloyd’s female-driven drama “Herself.” The film stars Irish actor Clare Dunne, who is known for her theater work, including Lloyd’s all-female stage version of Shakespeare’s “Henry IV.” Dunne plays Sandra, a young single mother struggling to provide her two young daughters with a safe, happy home…

via Cornerstone Closes Deals On Phyllida Lloyd’s ‘Herself’ Ahead of AFM — Variety