Birthdays: Robert Frost, Alfred Housman, Joseph Campbell, Tennessee Williams, Erica Jong, Bob Woodward, Patrick Suskind,

Tips and Teasers:  Your best characters will rise from personal experience. Dredge up everything bad (or good) that’s ever happened to you and let your characters experience it.

Thought for the day: “Never present ideas except in terms of temperaments and characters.” – Andre Gide