Reading Time: 2 minutes Perhaps this was another lost opportunity. Not all ideas are good ideas, but if they’re good enough to write down, they’re worth following up on. Continue reading Budding Writer, 1979: Potential for collaboration
Reading Time: 3 minutes Brian Clemens, Diana Rigg, Patrick MacNee, Sean Connery, even my friends Larry and Tex, are all gone now. Ars longa, vita brevis. Continue reading Budding Writer, 1979: Transitions
Reading Time: 3 minutes When we read the closing credits, we looked at each other and asked incredulously: “Based on the BOOK by … ?” Continue reading Budding Writer, 1979: Turnabouts and Toppers
Reading Time: 2 minutes Most of us live our lives as “pantsers.” We don’t plot out things in advance. We fly by the seat of our pants. And sometimes the fabric wears a little thin. Continue reading Budding Writer, 1979: Anothuh day, and anothuh, and anothuh
Reading Time: 3 minutes A rebranding, a new logo, two major milestones (one good, one bad), and a chance to get out from behind the desk. In all, making progress! Continue reading Week in Review: Week 38
Reading Time: 4 minutes — WRITING LIFE — Wanting to trod the boards with playwright Henry Fielding, I take my story about Houdini and Margery to my first playwriting class. Continue reading The curtain rises on a play
Reading Time: 6 minutes – WRITING LIFE – A story with great characters, conflict, action, and humor dropped on my desk as an intern. What to do? Second in a series. Continue reading Harry Houdini and the Witch of Beacon Hill
Reading Time: 5 minutes – WRITING LIFE – How an internship for Reader’s Digest launched my interest in Houdini and a story that would haunt me for life. Continue reading Nothing up my sleeve…
