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By Jove, Holmes, you’re an action hero!

December 30, 2009

I understand why Hollywood turns to established stories and mangles them, but it still makes me sad. It’s a fact of life, like old age and reality television, but that doesn’t make it any more pleasant.
The first motivation comes from the Safety of the Known. A story like Sherlock Holmes has stood up to scrutiny [...]

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Looking for Inspiration

December 2, 2009

“I dream a lot. I do more painting when I’m not painting. It’s in the subconscious.” —Andrew Wyeth, American painter
Inspiration is a funny thing. When you’re searching for it, it often becomes slippery and elusive. And yet sometimes, in strange and unexpected ways, creative ideas will sneak in unnoticed and take root in our minds.
There [...]

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Looking in the Wrong Place

August 17, 2009

Late yesterday evening, I was working in my home office when I heard my wife exclaim.  I poked my head out of the doorway to see her standing in the middle of the room, pointing towards her desk where a rather large spider was going about its spidery business, unaware of the distress it was [...]

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Visualizing your plot in full color

September 14, 2008

I’ve started using a visual way to develop my screenplay, which is working out rather well. I’ve been working on a rather intriticate story that covers multiple timelines (past and present) that converge midway through the story.  It was driving me bonkers trying to remember what happened ” before” something else in the narrative.
I went [...]

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Keeping the juices flowing with word exercises

June 14, 2008

All the members of my writing group are working on different projects and topics, with many different speeds and styles.  We’re very different writers, but all share the common affliction of sometimes just having the creative well run dry.  To combat that we started choosing a random word for each session for everyone to work [...]

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