Musings on life and other matters
Writer
Laura Harbin
Laura Harbin spent twenty years producing film and television projects. For her, the best part of any project was working with the creative material, with the writers, editors, composers etc. For the past five years she has been working on developing her own projects, primarily features.
Screenwriting
Making people believe the unbelievable is no trick; it’s work. … Belief and reader absorption come in the details: An overturned tricycle in the gutter of an abandoned neighborhood can stand for everything.
—Stephen King
I have written several series ideas and features. See page for more details.
Ruminations
- 1.a deep or considered thought about something.“philosophical ruminations about life and humanity”
- 2.the action of chewing the cud.“cows slow down their rumination”
Metaphors & Allegories
“The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor. It is the one thing that cannot be learnt from others; and it is also a sign of genius.”
— Aristotle in the Poetics
Allegory is a figure of speech in which abstract ideas and principles are described in terms of characters, figures, and events. It can be employed in prose and poetry to tell a story, with a purpose of teaching or explaining an idea or a principle.
Stories
“I want my stories to be something about life that causes people to say, not, oh, isn’t that the truth, but to feel some kind of reward from the writing, and that doesn’t mean that it has to be a happy ending or anything, but just that everything the story tells moves the reader in such a way that you feel you are a different person when you finish.” – Alice Munro
What she said.