Recently I participated in a ‘cold reading’ night and then had my script critiqued by a guest panel of judges. The overall verdict was that I was a smart writer and the script had real promise but no heart. What does that mean? First of all, congratulations are in order. #1 – You finished a […]

Learn to play again…. remember how to ‘make believe’

I took a screenwriting class with a buddy and while he just kind of plowed through his first draft but I got kind of sidelined by fixing stuff. I still haven’t finished and he’s on to his second script. What gives… am I just slow? Writing is one of the strangest undertakings. We are seduced […]

So much of what we see in the world starts in our head. I live in a city of rain… and most days it is beautiful. What happens in my head on those days on those days I can’t find the beauty?

I always mean to sit down and write, but my girlfriend kind of resents the time I spend doodling on the computer and …. Relationships are tricky at the best of times…. and I definitely don’t want to turn my reply into a ‘Dear Abby’ advice column here. But it is possible to participate in […]

When you start observing the world around you for stories… you find them everywhere.