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 →
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 →
One of the sites I publish on (Triond) has a special on this month where I get a bonus if I publish 5 or more articles, so I’ve gone back to several articles that I’d left unfinished. I published two this week. Three more articles and I’m done. Note: The original post has been taken… Read Article →
Writers are always told to “write what you know.” I worked for 30 years as a transportation planner, so I thought I should write a story set in that milieu. So far I have found that very hard to do. About six years ago I started on a script idea set in a transportation planning… Read Article →