The October 19 issue of the New Yorker is very interesting from a writing point of view. The most provocative article to me was “The Gossip mill,”by Rebecca Mead, which takes the reader inside Alloy. a company that produces best-sellers by committee. They’re the minds behind the Traveling Pants and Gossip Girl series. The first [...]
Musings by Lisa Torcasso Downing I am making my way through the Carter-touted Story Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting by Robert McKee and have met some challenging ideas. I’d thought I’d run one up the flagpole. Early in the book, McKee discusses his take on the decline of the storytelling craft. He [...]
I did it, Stephen. I bought Robert McKee’s Story. In hardback, even! This shows how much I trust you. So far I think it’s great. Even though the book’s about screenwriting, it applies marvelously well to fiction of all kinds. One of the sections I found particularly lucid and well-said was a short, three page [...]
Do you believe in Santa Claus? The Easter Bunny? The Tooth Fairy? How about the Writer Genius? I believed in the Writer Genius for many years. He was this special, misunderstood person whose waters ran very deep. He was someone who had amazing novels and short stories swimming inside him like fish, just waiting to [...]
I believe in repentance But it’s probably not what you’re thinking. I actually dislike the word repentance. When I hear it, I think of those priesthood sessions of General Conference when I sat between my dad and my brother in the darkened chapel, knowing that I was full of adolescent sin. From an outside point [...]
Below, I have posted the editorial that will appear in the upcoming double issue of Irreantum, due to arrive in your mailbox in November. The characters you’ll come to know in this issue include a pair of feuding farmers, a suicidal grandmother, an adulterous wife, a disgraced seminary teacher, and an earthen volcano erupting with [...]
Hi. I’m Stephen Carter, the new editor of Sunstone. It’s kind of scary to see my name sidle into its place next to the worthy names of Dan Wotherspoon, Elbert Eugene Peck, Peggy Fletcher Stack, Allen Roberts, and Scott Kenney. I feel like an Osric suddenly called upon to play Hamlet. Whether there was a [...]
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