Posts By: James Beattie Morison

After substantial procrastination, I’ve taken a break from my transportation planning stories to work on my short film for the 20th annual $100 Film Festival. Wednesday I picked up a camera (a Canon Scoopic) from the CSIF’s new production coordinator Yvonne. It’s been a while since I used a 16mm camera, so I had to… Read Article →

Over the years I tried several different approaches to character names. I’m still not sure which the best way is. When I started I just picked names “out of the air.” It turned out that wasn’t always easy to do, and some of the names were uninspired. Later I developed names that were similar to… Read Article →

I just posted a new short story. The Gladstone Barrier https://www.dynamiclethargyfilms.ca/stories/the-gladstone-barrier/ This story is set a traffic operations office, but has some of the same characters as The Glencoe Project. Although I wrote it later, The Gladstone Barrier happens before The Glencoe Project. I found this story much harder to write. It could be because… Read Article →

I got a second draft of my short story The Gladstone Barrier done this week. I think it is much better, but I still think I’ll need two or more drafts before I think it is ready to post. I wish I could do it faster. I have trouble with some of the dialogue. While… Read Article →

Well, not really the gods and it wasn’t really all that bad. My website got migrated last week. For some unknown reason the version they migrated was from two weeks earlier. I didn’t want to post a blog until that had been fixed. It wasn’t done until late Monday, so I decided to wait and… Read Article →

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