Narratives Gifts

"The problem is there's no engine. Just a mysterious plot device."

"The key to a good story is to give the protagonist lots of challenges."

"Dad, can we have a bedtime narrative?"

"It's a heck of a tale...and well told, but we don't publish resumes."

"Dad, please tell me again about that mass production and consumerism."

"I remember when the death of the hero meant the end of the sequels. Now it marks the beginning of the prequels."

Characters jumping out of a book.

"More rescue efforts, less screenplay."

Library - Political Science section - 'What to do until the spin doctor comes'

Grimm's Reality Tales.

'I'm not being punished! I'm reading because I happen to enjoy reading!'

"What your memoir really needs is an addiction."

"We've done a rigorous examination of your business plan using the latest algorithms to model future profits. . . which way up would you like it?"

". . . I called this meeting to communicate that I had dinner Noah..."

The writers group met every Tuesday for support and fellowship.

"This is an excellent story, Doris, so far."

"That was too many fresh original voices for one night."

"I feel that I have at least one more unpublished novel in me."

'Is this your first book launch?'

"...And I like how you switched from the first person narrative to third person—impressive." "Thanks."

"Excuse me, Jerrod, but I'm leaving you for Paul's competing narrative."

Thomas Keneally

"I'm not spinning - I'm contextualizing."

Writer Services: We fix plot holes.

A book reviewer reads between the margins.

"It all happened so fast. 'Notable Book of the Year' to the remainder shelves to HERE in just six months!"

'I'm a writer.' - 'What a coincidence, I'm a reader.'

"But you didn't say they had to make sense - you just told us to write a thousand words a day."

"It was only when I started to write the story of my life that I realised I'd forgotten to have one."

The central metaphor of her novel was a fly.

"I wrote, self-published and remaindered it myself."

"See, that's the problem with you new breed. You take rejection too personally."

Charles Dickens.

'My bed time story sounds a lot like your blog.'

'Your new book is full of mistakes: the critics will have a field day.'