Biff Mitchell
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I'm a writer/photographer/illustrator wondering why I'm living in Atlantic Canada.
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Learning and Reflection
It's never enough to throw a pile of information at a learner and assume they're going to somehow benefit just from exposure to that information. For real learning to take place, the learner must make a meaningful connection between the information and the physical context in which they'll apply it (i.e., the workplace).
By Biff Mitchell5 years ago in Education
How Does Violence Fit into Your Stories?
Violence. It’s everywhere. Think about it: An ant foraging through the grass on a sunny summer day thinking, “It’s so good to be alive. And to be an ant.” Immediately after which you step on it and crush its little body into ant mush.
By Biff Mitchell5 years ago in Journal
How to Write Sex Scenes In Your Stories
One evening at Windsor, the windows steamed up as a member of the Writing Hurts Like Hell workshop read her exercise about a couple having sex. The catch was that the piece had to be written from inside the mind of one of the characters…no second voice descriptions, no “she panted” “he thrust” or “they writhed.” It had to be whatever was going through the mind of the character while having sex written as though the writer were that person.
By Biff Mitchell5 years ago in Filthy
Can Anyone Write a Novel?
I suppose I’d have to pare this down to the essence of writing a novel: Can anyone tell a story? On this point, I’d have to say, “Yes, anyone can tell a story, but some will tell a mesmerizing story while others will put their listeners to sleep.”
By Biff Mitchell5 years ago in Journal
How to Revise and Rewrite a Novel
It All Starts with a First Draft Ever see those advertisements for books and courses on how to write a novel? The writer, dressed casually, smiling confidently, sitting in a clean airy room, possibly the living room, with a spanking new laptop on the coffee table, merrily whipping up the year’s next bestseller, soon to be a movie. Or that traditional image of the paper rolling into the typewriter, words stamping onto the paper, pull out the paper, rolling in another sheet, sending it off to the publisher and waiting for the royalties to roll in. I don’t think this happens even in the movies anymore.
By Biff Mitchell5 years ago in Journal
