It's been an interesting challenge writing the Wedding Day novel, mainly due to how I splintered the short story into different works, all of which had positives and negatives. Putting those pieces together has been a bit frustrating, but—I think—ultimately going to lead to a compelling…
I'm reading legendary screenwriter Charles Brackett's diaries, and it's a bit of a slog. Lots of repetitive entries about meetings in LA restaurants. But it's worth it, because every so often you find a gem about some forgotten icon or a story…
I could not agree more with John Scalzi's post about the artisan web. I've spent a lot of time recently moving off of corporate structures that own the entire structure of not just what delivers your content, but the moderation and filtering of it, as well.…
The members of my writers group like to joke that I'm always hustling. They mean it in the way that I'm always looking for ways to move forward, and while that's true, I always consider it just plain hard work combined with taking advantage…
I put the finishing touches on my most recent feature screenplay. Entitled Not Hurt, it is what in the industry is called a contained movie. Contained means that it is limited in terms of characters and setting, leading to a much lower budget for the final film. In this case…
Earlier this year I participated in the Codex writers group Summer Flash contest. I decided to do so with the collaboration of some AI writing engines as a trial. You can see the posts about them in my blog here on the site. I'm happy to announce that…
My last few entries I discussed writing with Laika and how it did in the Codex Summer Flash contest. Last round I was pressed for time due to my having a deadline for an agent, so I rushed out the story and sent it in. So while a raw draft won't get good scores, the process was certainly helpful in…
I haven't regularly written short fiction in years, but I've re-started lately and one of the things I've been doing is playing around with various AI writing tools. You can find my previous posts on this topic here and here. While testing the software…