Patricia Hickman Quote
Facing the sagging middle when writing a novel, while inevitable, may be overcome by pre-planning. I divide my collection of proposed scenes into three acts, each scene inciting tension that builds toward the final crisis in Act Three. If by Act Two the emotional river isn't spilling over the banks, I reassess the plot so that once the writing is flowing I don't slide into a dry creek. The central character should be struggling to navigate life well into the end of Act One, even if her fiercest antagonist is only from within.
Patricia Hickman
Facing the sagging middle when writing a novel, while inevitable, may be overcome by pre-planning. I divide my collection of proposed scenes into three acts, each scene inciting tension that builds toward the final crisis in Act Three. If by Act Two the emotional river isn't spilling over the banks, I reassess the plot so that once the writing is flowing I don't slide into a dry creek. The central character should be struggling to navigate life well into the end of Act One, even if her fiercest antagonist is only from within.
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About Patricia Hickman
Pat Hickman (1941, Fort Morgan, Colorado ) is an American fiber artist. She attended the University of Colorado Boulder and University of California, Berkeley. She taught at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa from 1990 to 2006. She retired as professor emerita of the Art Department. Hickman served as the president of the Textile Society of America from 2008 to 2010.
In 2005 Hickman became a Fellow of the American Craft Council.
Her work is in the Denver Art Museum, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
In 2005 Hickman became a Fellow of the American Craft Council.
Her work is in the Denver Art Museum, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.