The wrong side of history
Reading Time: < 1 minute Writers often have to decide which is more important: literal accuracy or historical truth. Screenwriter Tony Kushner said he had his reasons.
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Week in Review: Week 4
Reading Time: < 1 minute I took some time off this week to work on other projects. They weren’t all creative; I’m working on some reports and major projects for a nonprofit group.
Read More Week in Review: Week 4Week in Review: Week 3
Reading Time: 2 minutes So far, January has been the busiest month ever for this blog. Can I keep up the pace? Or should I spend the next week working on bigger projects?
Read More Week in Review: Week 3‘Houdini and Spiritualism’
Reading Time: 4 minutes – REVIEW – The book’s most diverting chapter is a bit of fiction. In “The Adventure of the Empty Chair,” Sherlock Holmes unveils a secret of Spiritualism and foils a demonic plot.
Read More ‘Houdini and Spiritualism’‘Margery’ character studies
Reading Time: 5 minutes -WRITING LIFE- Creating a cast for a one-act play about the medium who baffled Houdini seemed simple–until research showed there was more to the story.
Read More ‘Margery’ character studiesThe curtain rises on a play
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.
Read More The curtain rises on a play‘The Witch of Lime Street’
Reading Time: 4 minutes – REVIEW -To tell the whole story of the Margery mediumship would require voluminous research: newspaper coverage, personal correspondence and university archives, museum collections, stories told and retold by friends and family. I would never have the time or the scholarship to pull off a project like this one. Fortunately, someone finally did.
Read More ‘The Witch of Lime Street’Harry Houdini and the Witch of Beacon Hill
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.
Read More Harry Houdini and the Witch of Beacon HillNothing up my sleeve…
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.
Read More Nothing up my sleeve…