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Mannequin Monday – Adventures in Filmmaking

March 23, 2020 / Bob Gillen / 0 Comments

Mannequin Monday – Adventures in Filmmaking

Welcome to another Mannequin Monday. Today we dress the naked form, the blank page, with both words and moving images. A quote from author/painter Huguette Martel’s graphic story, Adventures of a Would-be Filmmaker: “When I die, and if there is life after death, I want to finally be able to walk in very high heels.” And in this week’s interview, camera operator Georgia Packard encourages any filmmaker to emulate Ansel Adams in walking around their subject from all angles before shooting.

Mannequin Monday – My Enemy Became My Teacher

March 9, 2020 / Bob Gillen / 0 Comments

Mannequin Monday

Welcome to another week as we dress the blank page, fill the canvas with color, shape the block of clay. This week is all about the face of the enemy. The face of awareness, of forgiveness. The enemy as teacher.

Mannequin Monday – Opening Lines

March 2, 2020 / Bob Gillen / 0 Comments

Hi. Mannequin Monday again. Dressing the blank page. Making art. Welcome back. I love a good opening line. Pulls you right into the story. One of my favorites is the first sentence of Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea. “He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish.” The entire story is set up in the one line. The old man will endure in spite of obstacles and pain.

Mannequin Monday – Dressing the Page

February 17, 2020 / Bob Gillen / 0 Comments

Mannequin Monday. A day to dress the blank page. To fill the empty screen. To chip away at the block of stone. To shape the blob of clay.

The mannequin’s purpose is to be draped by the dresser. Blank media exists for the artist. Let’s fill and shape, let’s make art, with our words, our visions, our hands.

Every week I will post a story I have read, a bit of discussion on the story, another reference to a podcast, article, or interview, and then an excerpt from my current writing. The outline will mimic the structure of several online fiction courses I have taken with the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. I hope you may find inspiration here.

Tag: Narrative magazine (Page 2 of 2)

Mannequin Monday – Adventures in Filmmaking

Mannequin Monday – Adventures in Filmmaking

Mannequin Monday – My Enemy Became My Teacher

Mannequin Monday

Mannequin Monday – Opening Lines

Mannequin Monday – Dressing the Page

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