I remember well the night I first heard Nirvana. I was sunk in wretched and ugly despondency, not wanting to talk to anyone and hating myself. I couldn’t discern or articulate my inner state, even to myself. There was no separating cause and effect. Then Kurt Cobain wove his uncanny spell. Suddenly I experienced my […]

During a conversation earlier today, a formerly svelt young lady said that she had given up on the idea of exercise, because to have a body worth the trouble, it would take three or four hours a day. Novice writers complain that in order to build their careers, it would take six or seven hours […]

In today’s world of mass communications and internet it is relatively easy and convenient to purchase the products and services online: you should not stand in queue in order to purchase the products, neither is it needed to carry the cash or confine yourself to limited hours when the shop is opened. However, whatever you […]

Good writing is often designed around a character who has a distorted vision of himself or of the world. During the story, he is placed under sufficient pressure to force an epiphany, a moment of clarity in which, he sees the world as it is, not as he wished it to be. A classic example […]