Storytelling
2002 08 22
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I was watching Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs recently, and once again marvelling at the talent some people have for taking the seemingly ordinary - that which we sometimes fail to notice because it's so commonplace - and turning it into something extraordinary, turning something into a story with which almost anyone could relate. Once in a rare while I find I can do this. But some people seem to walk, talk, and breathe it, wake, eat, and sleep it. It's an ability I envy. Then I remember that good writing is a craft, and therefore is work. Work I can do.