The road from short story to novel has been long and winding for Wedding Day, but we have reached our destination. After wonderful feedback from beta readers, the final revisions are done. Now to send it out to agents and perhaps a publisher or two. We shall see. Next up…
Congrates to John, who won our March giveaway of notes and a critique. Next months' giveaway will open in about ten days. For those who entered this month, your free ebooks will be delivered within the next few days.…
I just received beta reader feedback on my Wedding Day novel, so my new immediate plan is to revise Wedding Day and then go back and work on the Thursday feature. This is a pretty significant degree of context switching, and I do prefer to work on one project at…
Inspired by Nathan Graham Davis, who gives back to the screenwriting community by providing notes on one screenplay a month, I've decided to do the same thing to give back to the writing community that has helped me so much. You can find all the details by clicking…
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…
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…