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Five Things to Inspire Your Creativity Today
Writing Tips and Creative Inspiration from Around the Web
In my Saturday email newsletters, I usually include a little section with links to articles and writing tips I’ve stumbled across in my Internet travels. But sometimes I want to make a comment on one of the articles or highlight a specific quote. So I thought I’d turn that little section into its own blog post today and share five favorite writerly things I found in June. Enjoy!
1. The Novella That Wasn’t Meant to Be Read: How Graham Greene Wrote The Third Man
I recently re-watched the 1949 film noir classic The Third Man, one of my favorite movies. Since I was already familiar with the story, I was able to focus on the cinematography and the fantastic acting performances of Orson Welles and Joseph Cotten.
If you haven’t seen the movie, it’s set in post-war Vienna and follows the adventures of pulp novelist Holly Martins as he investigates the suspicious death of his friend, Harry Lime. I love the atmosphere of the movie, and after this viewing, I went to see if the screenplay had been based on a novel and if it was worth reading.
I discovered that the screenplay had been written by Graham Greene, one of the leading…
