Nancy Cayton Myers – Confabulator Cafe

The Artist (Flash Fiction)

Nancy Cayton Myers - March 28, 2012

So yeah, I’m working this fundraiser tonight at the museum. It’s in this room with ancient stone carvings from Egypt. A bunch of rich people and artists from all over rubbing elbows. Used to come in here with my boys from time to time, that’s how I knew about it and now I work here, […]

Plot vs. Character: Save the eggs; torch my metaphor

Nancy Cayton Myers - March 23, 2012

“If your story was a house on fire, what would you run in and save?” Brad Bird ~ Writer/Director (Ratatouille, The Incredibles, Mission Impossible – Ghost Patrol) Plot vs. Character? No doubt in my mind, I’d save the characters. Here’s why: character drives plot. The “stuff” of story, the desire that drives choices and actions […]

Who are you and what do you want?: Developing characters and finishing what I start

Nancy Cayton Myers - February 22, 2012

Back when I never finished anything, I used to just give my characters a name and a situation and watch the ‘fun’. But it wasn’t enough, I cannot be pantsless (See Confabulator Ted Boone’s Pants are optional. Plans are not. | Confabulator Cafe.) and I never finished anything! And it wasn’t all that fun, either. […]

Panning for Gold in the Dark

Nancy Cayton Myers - January 27, 2012

A couple of weeks back the fabulous Confabulators weighed in on where their writing ideas come from. I may backtrack a bit over some of that territory, because where they come from seems to be connected to the ideas I end up pursuing past the ‘idea’ stage. Looking back on the thousands of words I’ve […]