Apparently Kindle sales make up over half of Amazon’s sales now. I read a blog about the benefits of Amazon’s Direct Publishing for Kindle, so I had a look at it. Apparently some already successful authors are going that route rather than through traditional publishing. It costs essentially nothing to get published. They take part… Read Article →
Monthly Archives: May 2011
“Show don’t tell” is one of the most common bits of advice I come across when I read about writing. I’ve always thought of it as good advice, although I do find it hard to do Recently I started to wonder if it is the way to go in a film script. Could it be… Read Article →
When I started to work on my ideas for a story featuring transportation planners, I didn’t think that it had been done before. I thought I should check before I go too far. So far I haven’t found anything quite like what I have in mind. I have found some movies and a novel that… Read Article →
I just published a new article: Transportation: Planners Versus Modellers. In it I talk about some of the conflicts that develop in transportation planning. I wrote this article because I want to make a movie set in the world of the transportation planner. They say to write what you know, and that was my life… Read Article →
The Canadian election led some people to my articles How Would Proportional Representation Change Canadian Politics? and Should Canadian Taxpayer’s Finance Political Parties? I chose those topics because I thought that would happen. Note: The original post about Taxpayer finance has been taken down. If you are interested in reading the article, let me know… Read Article →
Well, actually, it is an old film, but I never posted it on-line before. Extra Special Care 1990 (16mm) 4 minutes A crack team of scientists and technicians collaborate on a very important project. I made this as a member of a filmmaking class at The Southern Alberta Institute of Technology. Walter Sheppard urged me… Read Article →
2011 May 4 Monday last week, Stacy Parks of Film Specific put a post on her blog about blogging for filmmakers. I made a comment about some of the challenges of writing a blog and she suggested that if your film has a particular target audience, that posts about their interests would be a good… Read Article →
