• Challenge,  On Writing

    Writers Often See The Dark Side…

    At Least Beginning and Early Stage Writers… I have noticed this over the years, but a couple things over the last few months really brought this concept home. This functions in two ways. For example, in the Depth workshop, one of the assignments is to see an ex-spouse at the end of a setting assignment. 99 out of 100 of those assignments are negative, hateful, full of loathing or disgust or fear of the ex-spouse. Fiction folks. You have a choice to move away from the cliche and the negative. Writing topics in other workshops go along with this trend. If there is a choice between positive outlook and a…