I rerecorded my writing exercise “The Old House and the Desperate Baroness” this week. In the older filmmaker’s club, we discussed ideas for films about issues of aging. I had not been able to come up with any ideas. Then it occurred to me that I might be able to rework my writing exercise “The… Read Article →
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I’ve posted a recording of my most recent writing exercise “The Quest of the Valuable Fugitive” on SoundCloud and on my website. I wrote the story based on the randomly selected title in 30 minutes. Description: George Potter lives in fear. He goes on a short quest to seek his release. Random Title Generator I’ve… Read Article →
I finished editing my most recent writing exercise, “The Lighter Darkness” and posted it on-line. In an old, haunted house, George must overcome fear if he is to succeed. I wrote the story is based on the title “Complaining About the Jittery Phantom”. I felt a change in the title was appropriate. It has a… Read Article →
I modified my random title generators. One complaint I got from people was that too many of the titles sounded like Perry Mason stories. Background to the Random Title Generators I used a few writer’s prompts on-line. Although I found them useful, they didn’t seem to have a lot of variety. The same or similar… Read Article →
I managed to be busy this week, without actually doing very much. I worked on the script writer’s group, the older filmmakers’ club, and a couple of my writing exercises. Also, I have another premise for a science fiction story. Script Writer’s Group I’ve been a member of a script writer’s group for almost 5… Read Article →
I added another movie to my Vimeo account this week. I posted “The Hysteria of the Uppity Guru” on Vimeo Saturday. It has two likes so far. Both were from filmmakers in Spain. https://vimeo.com/735067667 You can see all my movies on Vimeo here: https://vimeo.com/dynamiclethargy I did a little work on “The Barrier”. Mostly trying to… Read Article →
This wasn’t a very productive week for me, but I did get a few little things done. Vimeo I’ve been posting all my movies on YouTube. I posted a few of them on Vimeo as well. This week I decided I should put all my movies on both sites. I uploaded five more to Vimeo… Read Article →
I finally got my “The Sad Lady and the Hesitant Father-in-Law” video finished and posted. This project turned out to be much more of a challenge to make than I would have expected. It is actually a fairly straight forward little video. There is nothing fancy about it. However, it had all kinds of finicky… Read Article →
I did this writing exercise a couple weeks ago. This week I finally got around to recording and posting it. “The Old House and the Desperate Baroness” A once wealthy Baroness dreads a visit from a certain young man. https://soundcloud.com/dynamiclethargy/the-old-house-and-the-desperate-baroness “The Sad Lady and the Hesitant Father-in-Law” I got back to work on this video…. Read Article →
I used to be a big reader of science fiction but haven’t tried to do much along those lines in my own writing. Lately I’ve been musing over a few concepts for science fiction stories. The ideas I have come up with are mostly just background to a story rather than a story idea itself…. Read Article →
