Cathrene Gehue - Artful & Literary Excavations of Imagination

When Fictional Characters Rant

Cathrene Gehue — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:34:43 +0000

There is a peculiar phenomenon which occurs during fiction writing. It has to do with character building. Although there’s probably some technical term for it, I’d prefer to focus on observations of the experience in this post. In summary, the experience is very much like an actor who, during rehearsal on stage, suddenly breaks away from [...]

Do You Have to Go to School to Become an Artist or Writer?

Cathrene Gehue — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:57:48 +0000

Q: Do you have to go to school (college, university, etc) to become an artist or a writer? A: I’ve spent far too much of my life grappling with whether or not a higher education would help me be a better writer and guarantee success in the publishing world. Straight out of high school, I entered [...]

How Do I Blog, Let Me Count the Ways

Cathrene Gehue — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 21:03:15 +0000

Late last year I started to re-organize and streamline cathrene.net, based on some ideas of my own and a year’s worth of observations and experiences following the traditional route with blogging and running an online juried art gallery called House of Scratch. To summarize these observations and experiences, if I can’t do cathrene.net my way [...]

Endings are New Beginnings

Cathrene Gehue — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 22:30:58 +0000

New Year’s Day became a day of sorting out what to accomplish in the upcoming year. A recurring theme began to emerge as I mulled over my list—finishing projects. Among them, Ule the Unfurled, is of utmost priority. It’s easy to set up story threads and fun to start weaving them together mid-way in a story, [...]