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 →
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I finished and posted “The Desperation of the Wretched Senator” last week. This week I posted audio of my writing exercise: “A Journal for a Silly Social Scientist”. “The Desperation of the Wretched Senator” A politician tries to keep his past deeds from coming back to haunt him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isWKL7U34CI I have been more lethargic than… Read Article →
I’m a bit stumped by my next writing exercise. My last video still isn’t finished. I made some progress though. It has been a learning experience. The Script group had their 100th meeting (I joined about meeting 24). We had a lot of discussion and so we ran out of time to do the writing… Read Article →
This week I made some changes to my random title generator. I also added a video and an audio based on a couple of writing exercises I did. Changes To My Random Title Generator I made several changes to my random title generator. I added more words to the lists, and it now generated up… Read Article →
I created a random title generator a while back that I could use to generate ideas for writing exercises. I wasn’t happy with it, so this week I made a bunch of improvements. In the writer’s group I joined we used a random prompt generator to come up with ideas for our writing exercise. My… Read Article →
I’ve struggled to make much progress on my projects. Mostly due to a stretch of lethargy. I did make some progress though. “Bright Freedom” I came up with the idea for “Bright Freedom” about 12 years ago. Since then, I wrote several different drafts of a script. Then I abandoned that approach and tried to… Read Article →
The writer’s group I joined suggested we come up with ideas we could pitch. I Decided to share some here on my blog. The idea is to develop ideas for short “conversation” movies. I wrote up some of my thoughts about that a while ago: https://dynamiclethargyfilms.ca/stories/conversational-stories/ The Slow Speed Date Only two people show up… Read Article →
I have a memory from many years ago. I was watching a TV program some time between 1959 and 1966 when I saw a short sequence of two scenes. That memory has haunted me since then, but I have no idea what it was about. Now I think I know. The sequence I remember starts… Read Article →
I’m in self-isolation, so I decided to finish off some draft posts that have neglected. Over the years I have read stories and articles and watched some videos about interstellar travel and colonization. I have some of my own ideas about how this might happen. Maybe I can use it as background for a story.
I’ve given my terrorist story a new name: “The Interrogation”. Although I didn’t feel that I was ready to write this story yet, I found myself slowly moving in that direction. I have completed a treatment of the story and I’d like to get some feedback on it. If you are interested in reading it,… Read Article →
