This next one is a trip. Mr Bell asks us to pick a novel that didn’t work for us. Reread it. And as you do play the role of an editor, based on what you read in this chapter (about middles). Write a long letter to the author suggesting what […]
An open letter to a fifteen year old. Dear you, Look me in the eyes. Are you happy? The answer is No. I’m going to do my best to transmit to you, through space and time, a message of hope and encouragement. Hope because we need to unleash […]
Dear Charlie Kaufman, After an hour of thinking about what to write, I’m ready. Why I am writing this letter is because you wrote two of my favorite movies, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Adaptation. You’re up there with Tarkovsky, Linklater, and Noe for me, […]
CLICK HERE for PDF of “Between Arabia and India is Georgia” (A Love Letter) We all have our treasures. The 12th century Georgian poet, Shota Rustaveli, wrote what became, and to this day still is, the crown jewel of a people’s national literature: a medieval epic romance, about […]