One of the authors I can rely on for a much needed kick in the pants when it comes to writing is Chuck Wendig. Between his blog Terribleminds.com and his collected writing advice – that he has published in a number of books with catchy titles like – The Kick…
The Man Who Cried (2000)
Director Sally Potter wrote and directed this story about a young Jewish Fegele Abramovich and her struggle to reconnect to her identity and find her father. The story opens in 1927 in a small Jewish village in Russia where Fegele and her father live. A villager returning from the United…
Playwright Junction
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Last Stop with the Playwrights’ Junction
This past Monday night I sat in the audience at the Sudbury Theatre Centre with my fellow playwrights, family members, friends, co-workers, and the curious theatre going public – all of us there for the same thing, to hear actors do dramatic readings of our works in progress. A graduation…
Goodbye 2013 and Hello 2014
Back in Time by nicholasjon – License:CC BY-NC 2.0 Human perception of time is a funny thing. With the passing of each year, I never fail to wonder, where the heck did the last 365 days go? This past year was no different. In fact the older I get the more…
Transcendence Trailer
Earlier this year I had heard Johnny Depp was working on a new science fiction movie called Transcendence but details were fairly sparse other than it involved Artificial Intelligence (A.I.). Well the first trailer for the new movie was released today. Scheduled to come out in mid-April 2014 the movie…
Depp in Review – Year Two
It’s been almost a year since I foolishly declared that I was going to spend the next 365 days revisiting Johnny Depp’s thirty year long acting career and rewatching and reviewing his 40+ movies (see A Year of Living of Depp-erously). I managed to review almost half of his films and…
Enter Stage Right
I know its been dark here at my blog for the past month of so, coincidentally also the same length of time that my son has been back playing hockey this fall and that I have been enrolled in the local playwright workshop hosted by Matthew Heiti and the Sudbury…
New Chapters
A Shiny Big Nickel by BigA888 (via Flickr) Some Rights Reserved Seven years ago this week I moved my young family (my son was 2 1/2, my wife was 8 months pregnant) to Sudbury, Ontario (aka The Big Nickel) to start a new chapter in our life. Toronto and the…
DIY: Vision vs Reality
I have a confession to make. My current novel is woefully neglected and I’ve been trying to map out a path forward for some days, weeks, months now. This not to say there hasn’t been ANY progress, but the progress has been glacial. I’ve solved a few critical plot points…
Playwrights’ Junction
As if my life wasn’t full enough right now with work, family, and writing, I’ve decided to take on another writing project. This one involving the stage. The Sudbury Theatre Centre has a playwright-in-residence, Matthew Heti, who has been leading a workshop for new playwrights for the past couple of…