I am almost finished with The Gladstone Barrier, my second “transportation planning adventure story.” I continue to explore the field of transportation planning for story ideas. This post draws on my experience with transportation models. Most of my career in transportation planning was spent on models and forecast. Much of the rest of my efforts… Read Article →
Posts By: James Beattie Morison
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 →
The Crying Woman I had one very productive day on The Crying Woman this week. The whole story should run about 6,000 words and I wrote 2,600 in one session. I have another 2,000 to do. I was optimistic that I could finish it off the next day but I got stuck. Before I started… Read Article →
My goal is to make a film about transportation planning. There are many things I want to accomplish with the film. This is the first of a series of blog posts about what I want to say about transportation planning in the film. I worked for many years in transportation planning, mostly in modelling and… Read Article →
The Crying Woman I did a little writing on The Crying Woman this week. I’m about a quarter of the way through the first draft. I haven’t really filled in the outline yet. I have done most of the easy stuff. My original plan was for a film similar to Before Sunrise. I’ve decided to… Read Article →
I posted a new article this week about creative thinking. How to Think Creatively Note: The original post has been taken down. If you are interested in reading the article, let me know and I can post it on this website. The idea came to me because I was frustrated with the difficulty I had… Read Article →
I won’t name names since every city will have its own examples. When I first began to work as a transportation planner I wondered why some projects were ever even considered. I thought that they could not be justified on strictly economic grounds. Even so, these projects had broad public support. The explanation I came… Read Article →
I started to write The Crying Woman this week and I got about 900 words done. I first got the idea more than a year and a half ago and I spent quite a while in thought about the first part of the story, so it went quite easily. The next part proved harder. The… Read Article →
Years ago, when I worked as a transportation planner, I would create backup copies of my computer files frequently as I did my work. I was always afraid that if a made a mistake, that I would have to redo all the work. That happened to me before I developed the habit. When I began… Read Article →
The Gladstone Barrier I was stalled on my second “transportation engineer” story for a while now. This week I managed to get started again. I am about half way through the first draft now. It seems to be harder to write than the one I did before. In part it is because I’m trying to… Read Article →
