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Know when to stop - another way to foil your writer's block worries
We’re not machines. Some of us can write for hours and hours, others write in short spurts. But we all need a break eventually. Those breaks can be…
Mar 23
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What if the lands we walked on could speak? What might they tell us?
My novels invariably carry a strong element of magical realism. In one of my stories, land has consciousness, it hears us, it feels us, it knows us …
Mar 20
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About Bambi - not the Disney movie, but the Hitler-banned original novel
I'm an eclectic reader - rather than stick to preferred authors and genres, I go with recommendations and random notions and thus get to discover new…
Mar 16
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Match made in Hollywood heaven: Leigh Brackett and Howard Hawks
How a brilliant young woman writer got into Hollywood and regaled us with films like The Big Sleep and Rio Bravo - and even Star Wars!
Mar 9
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Match made in Hollywood heaven: Leigh Brackett and Howard Hawks
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When Steven Soderbergh retired
If you were not aware, he did. Starting back in 2013 ... and it held until about 2016. He's been back in various ways ever since. Good thing, too. When…
Mar 2
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February 2024
Quintus Hopper of Nevada: the joys of research
The word count of my last novel was going to be larger than that of Moby-Dick, imagine that. I decided to do things differently - and ended up with two…
Feb 25
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Nobody knows anything
William Goldman’s famous quote about Hollywood continues: "Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what's going to…
Feb 17
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Nobody knows anything
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Stanley Kubrick's Napoleon ... the greatest movie never made?
Well, now that Scott's Napoleon has come and gone, and with Spielberg working on a seven-part Napoleon miniseries for HBO, I thought it was worth taking…
Feb 10
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Nevada: The beautiful desert of buried hopes
Mining had given rise to Nevada in the early years. But many mines had gone from boom to bust in the time before WWI. When the U.S. declared war on the…
Feb 3
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January 2024
"Write what you know" - what a crock!
When you start out they always tell you to "write what you know". Seems to make sense, after all, you'll be writing about something where you have a set…
Jan 27
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Three ways to get a literary agent ... and a few thoughts on screenwriting competitions
Why exactly three ways, you may wonder. Simple - that's the number of agents I've had (and I'm still with number three) and so those are the experiences…
Jan 20
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Movie magic: Script annotations by Marlon Brando, John Wayne and others
Occasionally I dive a bit deeper into Google in search of annotated script pages by people actually shooting the films: directors, writers, actors…
Jan 13
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Movie magic: Script annotations by Marlon Brando, John Wayne and others
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