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Sam Wiebe

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Sam Wiebe is the author of CUT YOU DOWN, INVISIBLE DEAD, and LAST OF THE INDEPENDENTS. He lives in Vancouver.

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Sam Wiebe Think of it this way: your first act poses problems for your protagonist (or 'main character,' in mugglespeak).

The second act solves those problems, …m´Ç°ù±ð
Think of it this way: your first act poses problems for your protagonist (or 'main character,' in mugglespeak).

The second act solves those problems, but introduces newer, harder problems. And the third act resolves those problems, happily or otherwise.

At which stage do you usually get blocked? The second act. Which means you haven't found honest, satisfactory solutions to those problems.

So you have two choices: you can deus ex machina those problems, (or as Chandler says, "Have someone with a gun walk into the room.") Or you can work through them. The second way is harder, and, I think, more honest.

You the writer, in other words, are in the same position that your hero is. Solving her problems will solve yours.

So think outside the box. Do something you wouldn't normally do, something that will wake up the problem-solving mechanism. Read, take a long exhausting walk, a day trip, go see a play. When the answer comes, you'll know it.

None of this will actually SOLVE writer's block, mind you--sometimes it's just nice to understand our afflictions.(less)
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Winter 2019 Newsletter

Happy Holidays!



The last newsletter of the year is out, featuring news on stories and film/tv, an interview with graphic novelist Kris Bertin, and a short piece on adversity--perfect for the holidays.











See you in the New Year!





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“All biographies follow the same structure - infinitely fascinating and utterly dull.”
Sam Wiebe, Hollywood North

“I couldn't say the film business's weird collage of friendship and ambition and exploitation was unique. It was probably no different than boat sales or toilet seat manufacture. Or private investigation, for that matter.”
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“I try to alternate reading something educational with reading something fun, a sort of Nabisco frosted Mini-Wheats reading program.”
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“The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy. ”
Steven Weinberg

“It is foolish and childish, on the face of it, to affiliate ourselves with anything so insignificant and patently contrived and commercially exploitative as a professional sports team, and the amused superiority and icy scorn that the non-fan directs at the sports nut (I know this look - I know it by heart) is understandable and almost unanswerable. Almost. What is left out of this calculation, it seems to me, is the business of caring - caring deeply and passionately, really caring - which is a capacity or an emotion that has almost gone out of our lives. And so it seems possible that we have come to a time when it no longer matters so much what the caring is about, how frail or foolish is the object of that concern, as long as the feeling itself can be saved. Naïveté - the infantile and ignoble joy that sends a grown man or woman to dancing in the middle of the night over the haphazardous flight of a distant ball - seems a small price to pay for such a gift.”
Roger Angell, Game Time: A Baseball Companion




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