The Ink-Pot and the Palette

I don't know if I'm capable of writing stories in a completely non-filmic way; I wonder if anyone is who has absorbed as much filmed storytelling as the average modern person has.

I don't sit in a director's chair when I write--not to the conscious degree that you seem to--but I do think about how my characters are lit and blocked, and how they speak, move, and gesture.

Still, it's fundamentally and always about the words for me. And I think that's what these PTBSW exercises are for: to imagine a different set of fundamentals.

I just got back from Powell's. It was a zoo in there, but I got Advice to the Players, and I'm very pleased. It's one of Portland's best places, and is only about 15 blocks from my workplace.