Day 11

Busy again.

We critted 3 stories today. Connie and Walter talked about where they get stories. Walter also gave us some rules on alternate history and using magic and aliens.

Much of it is instinctive, but it's good to have the principles articulated.

We had another movie night in which we saw Chinatown with Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway. Great film--in a tragic kind of way. If the bad guy controls the cops and courts, the last option left is taking the law into your own hands.

Unfortunately, Jack's character was too devastated to do that.

Nichevo.

Now I have four stories to read and a little writing exercise in which I write the same scene three times with the same character, but in different emotional states.

Ugh.