Every writer is taught that, from Story Structure 101.
Even back in Ancient Greece, when Horace was in short pants, the deus ex machina was the mark of the amateur.
Yes, but …
what if you write about a co-incidence before the co-incidence has happened?
Take Edgar Allan Poe for example. Continue reading
Ask Michael Blake.
Through the late seventies, he turned out one unproduced screenplay after another. But in 1981 a friend of his from film school, Jim Wilson, asked him to script a movie he was directing, called Stacey’s Knights. It was to star an unknown actor called Kevin Costner.
Both Michael and Kevin thought it was their big break.
They were both wrong. Continue reading
Hers is one of the great love stories of the Wild West - and ultimately the saddest.
She was born in 1824, to Silas and Lucy Parker in Illinois. When she was 9 years old the family moved to north west Texas to follow the American Dream - land and a better life. They went to Fort Parker, established by Cynthia’s grandfather, in what is now Limestone County.
But on May 9, 1836, around a hundred Comanche and Kiowa warriors attacked the fort, killing many of the men, including her grandfather. Cynthia and five other captives were led away. One teenage girl escaped; four others, including her brother John, were later released for ransom.
Cynthia was beaten and treated as a slave at first, but her life improved when she was adopted by a Comanche couple, who raised her like their own.
While still barely a teenager she married Peta Nakone, (Camps Alone), a chieftain.
She played a dumb blonde to perfection yet she wasn’t at all dumb; she wasn’t even blonde. She was arguably the most explosive sex symbol of the twentieth century - and also one of its most tragic celebrities.
Born of a mentally unstable mother in 1926, young Norma Jeane Mortenson soon became a ward of the state and trailed through a string of foster homes, frequently the victim of sexual abuse.
Somehow Norma Jean became Marilyn the sex goddess, Everyman’s fantasy; but the reality of what lay beneath the peroxide hair and the breathless voice was something very different.
© 2016 International Best Seller Colin Falconer
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