Carson McCullers wrote beautifully. Her detailed and evocative descriptions add verisimilitude and create empathy. A Tree, A Rock, A Cloud conforms to this pattern. On a rainy dark morning, the action takes place in an all-night café that seems friendly and bright in comparison to the raw empty street.

McCullers description of paper boy’s pink ( Read more... )

A premise is the motivating force behind your story. The moral or message of the story, the point you are trying to make.

Other words used are thesis, theme, root idea, central idea, goal, aim, dramatic centre, driving force, subject, purpose, plan, basic emotion, point.
Premise, as defined in Webster’s dictionary, contains all the words those ( Read more... )

Screenplays
The drama starts

The Three Act Structure
“Tragedy is the imitation of an action that is complete.”
Aristotle; Poetics
“An action that is complete.”
Human experience of time, and events in time, includes an understanding of a period of time…
s  …beginning…

s  ….a period of time passing…

s  …and a period of time ending.

The Japanese ( Read more... )

Pumpkin, Corn, and Bell Pepper Chowder
Makes 6 to 8 servings
Serve this chowder with crisp Maryland Beaten Biscuits (page 312).
·         4 slices bacon, cut into small pieces
·         1 medium onion, finely diced
·         2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
·         6 cups chicken broth
·         One 12-ounce (340 grams, but most cans in Australia ( Read more... )

Pork chops with rhubarb
Serves 2

·         2*250 gram pork chops, 2.5 cm thick
·         ½ teaspoon fennel seeds
·         ½ teaspoon sea salt
·         Pinch of dried crushed chili
·         1 tablespoon sunflower oil
·         2 rashers bacon, chopped
·         1 leek, cut into thin rounds
·         Finely grated zest and juice of 1 orange
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For 6 person. Early in the morning in the morning prepare a dough from 1 ½ glasses warm water, 1 ½ zolotniki dry yeast diluted in a little warm water, and 2 glasses fine wheat flour. Let the dough rise, beat thoroughly with a spatula, ad add 1 teaspoon salt and 2 spoons poppy seed, sunflower seed, or olive oil beaten with ½ glass sugar. For ( Read more... )

Mushroom Noodle Soup with Vermicelli or Macaroni

·         1/8-1/4 pounds or 56-113 Grams mushrooms
·         1-2 onions
·         ¼ pounds macaroni or, 1  1/3 glasses flour for the noodles
·         (12 potatoes)
·         2-3 bay leaves
·         Greens
·         2 carrots
·         1 celery root
·         1 parsley root
·         1 leek
·       ( Read more... )

1 spaghetti squash (around 3 pounds/1360 Grams)

Tropical Salsa Fresca:

1 cup chopped tomato ( ½ inch chunks)

I cup chopped pineapple, mango or papaya ( ½ inch chunks)

1 avocado, peeled, pitted, and cut into ½ inch chunks

¼ cup lightly packed chopped fresh coriander/cilantro

Juice of 1 lime

Bean mixture

1 tablespoon vegetable oil

1 medium sized yellow onion ( Read more... )

The Personalities and leadership Styles of of Indira Gandhi, Golda Meir, and Margaret Thatcher ( Read more... )