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Nov.28.2011
(Following this latest installment is a recap of all the preceding episodes. New readers should scroll down to Part 1 and read in sequence.)
The jeweler ordered Vivian and me not to move. He grabbed a pen flashlight and dropped onto all fours, scouring the floor for the two cat’s eye gems...
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Nov.21.2011
(Following this latest installment is a recap of all the preceding episodes. New readers should scroll down to Part 1 and read in sequence.)
I left the bank with Grandpa’s ring in hand. I felt myself aligned to his spirit now. He’d made me a gift, which I accepted, and in doing so I accepted his...
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Nov.17.2011
(This story is being told in serial form, and I have no idea how many installments are ahead. Now that we have 5 episodes, it’s a hassle for newcomers to scroll down to the first installment and read the posts backwards. So from now on I’m putting all the preceding installments at the end of the...
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Nov.14.2011
(This post is a continuation of the preceding post, so scroll down to read them in order.)
The only person privy to my haunting was my friend Vivian, who had sent me to the psychic in the first place, and who had no trouble believing my story. She had long claimed to be, God love her, a white...
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Nov.09.2011
(This post is a continuation of the preceding post, so scroll down to read them in order.)
“Why?” My father looked at me skeptically when I asked him for a photo of his dad. I couldn’t very well tell him I was in communication with his father’s ghost. And I’d never before shown any interest...
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Nov.06.2011
(This post is a continuation of the preceding post, so scroll down to read them in order.)
My grandfather was a composer and music publisher. He was also, according to the New York Times, one of the wealthiest young bachelors in New York, and very social, belonging to a host of exclusive clubs plus...
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Nov.02.2011
It always amuses me to listen in on people debating whether or not ghosts exist. For me, there’s no debate. I have one.
When I was 27 I didn’t believe in life after death. The proof just wasn’t there for me. In that same year, on the recommendation of a friend, I visited a psychic (Frank Andrews)...
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Oct.07.2011
These days publishers are so impoverished that not only do they expect all but the most prominent writers to pay for their own editor and publicist, to blog and flog their book on the internet, but also to provide their own promo videos for YouTube. Consequently agencies and marketing companies...
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Sep.03.2011
Your trailer is an ad for a story. It’s a story that exists on the page only. Though it lacks visuals, it still has a plot, a mood, characters and events. (Note: I’m limiting this topic to fiction). Thus your book offers the same basic experience as a movie. And so this promo should be approached...
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Sep.03.2011
Up until the time I entered middle school, that murderer of illusions, I believed in spirits of the air, sea, and earth. My family home was a rocky plot on a lagoon, so all three categories were at hand. The stones were enchanted and had names. There was definitely a spirit in each tree: I visited...
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Aug.28.2011
As most authors know by now, a book’s debut must be accompanied by two videos: the author interview and the trailer. The following, which I’ll post in 3 parts, is what I learned from making my own videos for Jane Was Here (both are below). Compared to a trailer, the author interview is...
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Aug.10.2011
Finishing up from the previous blog, I offer some more differences between writing screenplays and novels.
Very few people will read your script. After friends and partners, you have your agent, manager, executives, producers. Maybe 50-60 people. If it gets produced, then actors, casting agents...
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Aug.04.2011
Following up on my previous blog, here’s more on the difference between writing novels and screenplays.
Some years after my first novel Dry Hustle was published in 1977, I decided to master the film script form so that I could make a decent living. It was time to settle down to one thing;...
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Jul.27.2011
People often ask me what it's like to write a novel after 30 years of writing screenplays. But even more often they ask, "Why?" Why leave a job being paid, and paid well, for writing 100 pages in three months? Sometimes you're even paid a ridiculous sum by the week, hanging around the set...
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Jul.21.2011
My friend Ron Rosenbaum has written a “single” or short take for Kindle called Rescuing Evil. At $1.99, there is so much profound reflection packed into this essay that one must read it again and again, in my case obsessively. (One also prays that Ron will expand his single into an LP, a third book...
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About Sarah
Sarah Kernochan's most recent novel, Jane Was Here, was published in 2011. Sarah has won two Academy Awards for her documentaries Marjoe and Thoth. As a screenwriter, she has written many films, among them Nine and ½ Weeks, Impromptu, and What Lies Beneath;...
Causes Sarah Kernochan Supports
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Sarah’s Favorite Books
The Sound and the Fury, Lolita, V., Close Range: Wyoming Stories, Into the Wild, Beloved, Pere Goriot, Gone with the Wind, The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel...