This week, besides work on “The Barrier”, and “The Disruptors”, I also thought about how I should develop the relationship back-stories for characters. “The Barrier” My rewrite of “The Barrier” has gone quite slowly, but I managed to finish 5 of the 39 scenes I plan to rewrite. Once do I get started it goes… Read Article →
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I didn’t accomplish much this week, but I did have some ideas and thoughts I wanted to share. “The Barrier” I did a little more work on my revised script for “The Barrier”. My progress has been rather slow. I think that is because I’m not really sure how I’ll get the film finished. I… Read Article →
About 20 years ago I got an idea for a story about transportation planning. I’ve started and abandoned it several times. I think I’m finally on a track to get it done. The initial inspiration for the story came from the book “The Wealthy Barber” by David Chilton. After several attempts, the story I have… Read Article →
One of the challenges of writing a story is that the protagonist needs to be dumb enough to get into trouble, but smart enough to get out of trouble. It occurred to me that cognitive biases could provide easier explanations for a character’s bad choices. Characters need to make bad decisions in order for there… Read Article →
I feel that “The 89th Key” was a good learning experience for me. I’ve organized some of my thoughts about what I learned. The Outline I have used outlines for most of my stories and all of my movie scripts. With “The 89th Key” I put more effort into the outline. I think I put… Read Article →
I worked on the plot and characters for “The Disruptors” this week. I’ve developed a bit of a process to organize this part of the writing. My plan had been to focus on “Bright Freedom”, but this week I got side tracked into “The Disruptors”. I feel bad that I put off a project, but… Read Article →
