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 →
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 →
“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 →
