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Posts tagged “writing”

Why I Write

Posted on October 6, 2012

stymie

In case you’ve ever wondered ….  So, Stymie Magazine of Sports Literature asked me recently to explain myself.  For starters, there’s this:

At first I wrote because my mom said I was excellent at telling tall tales, and it’s always nice to be excellent at something besides making a ventriloquist dummy of a rubber-worm fishing lure sing “Free to Be … You and Me.”

Check out the rest here.  My creative nonfiction story “Sport of the Future” appears in Stymie’s Spring/Summer 2012 issue, which can be found here on page 25 (but read the whole issue while you’re at it because it’s full of “feminine perspective” awesomeness).

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Categories: Creative Non-Fiction

Tagged: creative writing, Stymie, writing

Ten Lessons of Fictional Writers in Film

Posted on January 6, 2012

New Years Resolution: update blog in a timely manner … starting right after I post this news of a piece that ran almost a month ago.  But if you love film and you love to write and you love writers in film, this one may have been worth the wait.   Thanks to Ryan Rivas for including my Ten Lessons of Fictional Writers in Film on the Burrow Press Blog in December.  The following is only the first lesson.  Check out the rest here and have a look around Burrow Press while you’re at it.

Funny Farm

In Funny Farm, Chevy Chase plays a writer who moves to the middle of nowhere in order to jumpstart work on his manuscript in solitude.  When he’s finally done, he rents a hotel room, chills champagne, hands his wife his manuscript, and sits with his hands folded together in anticipation—watching intently, reading her facial expressions as the pages turn, leaning to check whether or not her laughter erupts in just the right places.  Lesson?  Don’t do that.

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Categories: On Movies, On Writing

Tagged: burrow press, chevy chase, film, funny farm, writers in film, writers in movies, writing

Today’s the day!

Posted on December 1, 2011

You can now get your ebook copy of Writing Off Script: Writers on the Influence of Cinema right here.  A very special thanks to Simon Smithson at Calavera Books, each of the phenomenal contributors and interviewees, book cover designer Steven Seighman, and book trailer producer Vernon Lott for all of their hard work and support.  I’m thrilled to share the result of their efforts with you and to see just how much we can raise to help replace the Joplin High School JET-14 students’ studio equipment, field cameras, and supplies that had been destroyed in the May 22 tornado.  So go buy it!  I promise it’ll be $4.99 well spent.

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Categories: On Movies, On Writing

Tagged: creative writing, film, writing

  

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