I believe strongly in the need to experiment. You learn something new from every project you do. With the end of My Most Difficult Case in sight, I need to consider the approach I’ll use with my next project. One approach I want to go back to is what I did on Line of Taxis…. Read Article →
Monthly Archives: March 2011
You can read my new short story at: https://dynamiclethargyfilms.ca/stories/the-glencoe-project/ This story draws on my experiences as a transportation planner. Experienced writers always tell new writers to “write what you know.” That hasn’t been easy for me up until now. Several times I’ve set out to write a story with a transportation planning background, but I abandoned… Read Article →
Just the other day, I came across a reference to the Baumol effect . In short it says that the productivity of some activities cannot be improved. It has been used to explain the growth of government, but that isn’t what caught my interest. The prime example used to illustrate the concept is a string… Read Article →
I use Google Analytics to track how many people visit my web pages. Yesterday, when I checked, I saw there had been a big jump in views of my Bukisa pages. When I dug deeper, I found that the increase was all from one article I posted back at the beginning of February: A Review… Read Article →
A short while ago I did a post on participatory cinema . At the time, I felt fairly optimistic about the prospects of this approach. After some thought, I’m not so sure it is likely to be all that successful. I thought back many years, to when I tried to make my first film through… Read Article →
I completed the first draft of my transportation planning adventure yesterday. I got 2,500 words written, which brought the final story to about 7,600 words. That is much longer than the 6,000 word story I had planned. I’ll need to edit it down quite a lot. My brother suggested I read Kathy Reichs’ book Déjà… Read Article →
Some of the people I used to work with have encouraged me to do a story about transportation planning, so I have tried several times to do that. Nothing has come together yet. I started to write a movie set in a transportation planning office, but got bogged down in the details. That experience made… Read Article →
