With the advent of the New Year I’m returning to my first love. And like most lovers who have strayed and seen the light, I’m returning humbly, willing to acknowledge my faults, ready to do what I need to in order to make things right, and sprouting off promises of my undying loyalty from this point forward and forever more. After an almost three year departure from my wholehearted commitment to writing, I am back.
Who that matters to in the final analysis perhaps is only me, but somehow I don’t believe that will be the case. I think it will matter to those with whom I share my day to day life because the person they encounter now will be the authentic me, rather than one who is off kilter for loss of core purpose. I anticipate it will matter to the small audience that I’ve been blessed to draw through the years who assure me my words have had meaning to them and have severed to enhance or impact their lives. I pray that it will make a difference to new people who stumble upon or are guided to whatever is yet to come that will hopefully spring from some, as yet untapped, well of new inspiration.
This is a query letter that resulted in a couple of dozen requests to review the synopsis or the full script of THE KNOLL FRAMES. One request resulted in a solid relationship that is still moving forward. It also generated a couple of requests to read more scripts. Thought I’d share its format and how [...]
How often do you read back through your journal or your diary? What about your blog or make re-visits to articles you may have written at another time in your life? Do you see measurable progress or improvement in the quality of your life, your direction, or your talent? Do you feel perhaps that in [...]
Standing on my porch yesterday afternoon our mail carrier recounted why our previous mail carrier was no longer delivering our mail. She described in graphic, detailed language how on a normal February day, a few blocks down the street from us, two bull mastiff dogs had broken their chains, jumped the fence, and attacked the [...]
As writers, we often talk about our muse and the role it plays in our productivity or lack thereof. We assign all manner of character or mischief, supernatural properties or flighty irresponsibility to the companion that, for most of us, joined us at the hip when we were children. One of the first things a [...]
How many roles do you have your main character playing in his or her every day life? Is it three, nine, or twenty? Are you as steeped in understanding those roles as you are that main conflict that you believe will keep the story moving forward?
Perhaps your character is a woman who is on [...]
Last month one of my short plays was published in Mused Literary Review Journal, and I received notice that a couple of my poems would be published in an avant garde literary review journal that I never anticipated would be interested in my work. New avenues for new works coming from new perspectives. It is [...]
There has been a life altering event for me during the last thirty days. It was unexpected; it snatched the rug from under everything else in my neatly ordered little world, and as the first phase of it drew to a close I knew, once again, how little control any man has over how his [...]
Many of us, I believe, have exhaled since the night of the election. Some of us are, admittedly, a bit overwhelmed with all of the ongoing coverage, the interviews, the merchandising, and the almost-impossible-to-meet expectations that have been thrust upon the President-Elect. But, weary though we may be of the commercialization of this unparalleled [...]
I am probably the proverbial ‘day late and a dollar short’ with this, but if you aren’t you might want to seriously consider volunteering in the coming days, weeks, months, and, perhaps even, years ahead. The time has come, the need is great, and, given the right spirit and commitment, the time you give could [...]
