I have been on the look out for new ways to get my projects done. It isn’t easy to make a movie and I feel I can use all the help I can find. I stumbled upon this Wikipedia article on Participatory Cinema http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_cinema and it thought it might be worth digging deeper. The idea… Read Article →
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The last couple of weeks one of my teeth has become very painful. This week it got so sore that I found it hard to concentrate on much else. I will get it pulled Monday. Recently, when I develop new stories, I try to give the main character some kind of handicap or limitation that… Read Article →
Over two years ago I wrote a series of three articles on how to write a script. How to Write a Feature Movie Script Part One – What is a movie script anyway? How to Write a Feature Movie Script Two – Writing a script isn’t just writing a script How to Write a Feature… Read Article →
I find myself in an internal conflict between projects that reflect my personal beliefs and projects that strive for wide spread popularity. In the past I felt that these two goals were not incompatible, but lately I’ve been focussed on how to attract readers. While I still feel I need to write for a wide… Read Article →
I don’t like to blow my horn, but they say you need to self promote to develop a following for your creative work. Over the last couple months I used Twitter to promote my stories and films on Twitter. Every day I would post a couple of tweets with a link to a story or… 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 →
At the start of this year, I set a goal of writing three feature scripts by the end of the year. I’ve done two and am a little over half way through the third. I think I’ll get it (Bright Freedom) done this week. The reason I picked three was that in Dov Ss Simens… Read Article →
When I was young, I read every Doc Savage book I could get, and reread the ones I had several times. I learned later that the writer, Lester Dent, had turned out one 50,000-word Doc Savage book a month for over 14 years. Not only that, but Doc Savage accounted for about a quarter of… Read Article →
I am mulling over an idea for a story set in a Think Tank. I read an excerpt from Massimo Pigliucci’s book Nonsense on Stilts in the latest issue of Skeptic Magazine http://www.skeptic.com/. It is a critique of the Think Tank industry. He says that many Think Tanks have become advocates rather than providing independent… Read Article →
