writers block | writers block
Jan.30.2009
Gosh. It has been so long since I blogged. It used to be an everyday thing. This feels like smoking a cigarette a year after quitting. A little harsh, a little painful, and yet strangely exhilarating and slightly orgasmic.
I found this site after visiting the website of Karrine Steffans. I have...
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Dec.05.2008
So, I found out that I have an IMDB credit - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3210500/ which is kind of neat, its from a film I worked on earlier in the year. A few images of my time on set can be seen in my image galleries. It's been a rather busy few months for me, one of the many reasons I haven't...
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Dec.05.2008
...for over a month now. Even before the month mark it was sporatic and flimsy.
I feel like I'm dying a slow death. To exist in a world with no words is not living. What are these statements strung together with spots? I was a great writer, but no more...I fear she is gone forever.
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Nov.21.2008
The title of today's blog is "Real dialogue for realistic characters" -- but a better title for me would be "Shut up and listen!"
Unrealistic (or more often, uncharacteristic) dialogue is one of the top reasons why I get stuck while writing a book. It means I don't feel...
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Nov.19.2008
Hi all!
I am back again, oddly enough I log into my Red Room a couple times a day but I never have time to make a proper blog. I am trying ever so hard to get in the swing of things. I am actually setting up my RSS feed to try to get some cross-blog hits out there so if you see an odd code later in...
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Nov.09.2008
This week I showed my students Adaptation, written by Charlie Kaufman and directed by Spike Jonze, a free-wheeling adaptation of Susan Orlean's nonfiction book The Orchid Thief. The metafictive film is as much about writing as it is about orchids, maybe even more so, and it occurred to me as I was...
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Sep.28.2008
A rare moment of genius, of sheer brilliance and now I realize: the thought was simply out there to be grabbed. Unfortunately, it was grabbed by someone else first. Although, that it was grabbed by another genius is comfort, small albeit, but comfort nonetheless. I would like to think it was the...
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Sep.03.2008
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure (even in metric).
I experienced over two month's of writer's block many a year ago. I did sit literally at my desk for hours, and can to this day accurately describe that desk. Its vision is before/behind my eyes as I key.
I have devised a scheme...
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Feb.19.2008
MANUSCRIPT BOUNCING--IS IT OKAY?
Tuesday, Aug 14, 2007
There is nothing ill to be said about bouncing from one manuscript to another. Eventually one of them might steal you away from the others. You have to listen/feel for that magic. The proper story will call out to you and, if you find yourself...
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Jan.28.2008
Today we are celebrating the wonderful Patry Francis and the paperback release of her novel, THE LIAR's DIARY. In support of Patry Francis and this remarkable blog initiative, Penguin Group USA would like to offer 15% off the paperback edition of The Liar’s Diary when purchased online from us....
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