Video Autobiography

Check out my brief autobiography DST project at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v+=F2dAxtUsHIA

Gardner, from The Art of Fiction

"Nothing can be made to be of interest to the reader that is not first of vital concern to the writer.  Each writer's prejudices, tastes, backgrounds, and experience tend to limit the kind of characters. actions, and settings he can honestly care about, since by the nature of our mortality we care about what we know and might possibly lose (or have already lost), dislike that which threatens what we care about, and feel indifferent toward that which has no visible bearing on our safety or the safety of people and things we love... The writer who denies that human beings have free will (the writer who really denies it, not jokingly or ironically pretends to deny it) is one who can write nothing of interest" (1991, pp. 42-43).