Confessions of a Climate Change Comedy Screenwriter
Revisions to the screenplay continue at a measured pace. I unpacked a lengthy exchange between two characters, that helped with flow. I’m still miserable about trying to hide a few key facts without bringing the narrative to a grinding halt. The manuscript is in Word on my computer and iPad, I can read while I’m […]
Read More finish the lineIt’s there somewhere behind a gate with a guard standing at a barricade that military undercover agents are trained.
Read More Saguaro BloomOne gull laughed, another cried, a young one begged.
Read More Limantour Beach to Celebrate LifeI write a novel after making a plan. The initial work includes list of scenes I want to put my list of characters into. I want them to have to go through some things on the way through the story. I knew that planning a novel about saving 2500 acres of oak woodlands was going […]
Read More Love Sceneplay as live drama via the novel as spoken word.
Read More The In and OUt of the affairPlaying the least visited towns allows for escaping the travel services industry. Instead of finding more of the same; Marriott, Hertz, Southwest Airlines and Denny’s there is this other original entrepreneurial economy to be relished. Globalization, climate change, digital technology and economic inequality account for the lion’s share of the changes to sweep across the […]
Read More Lightest Most Mighty Touch…For 25 years, I have written about the social and natural evolution of Napa, a diverse county that includes rare and valuable biological “hotspots” and 140,000 people, most of whom are associated with what’s now referred to as the wine “industry.” During that time, I have learned something about developers. Foremost is the fact that […]
Read More Paid Well Enough to Not See it Coming…Scene from 2015 Valley Fire Lake County, California Plenty busy now and well along on my fourth novel. In this scene I am dealing with how money in politics is influencing the winegrowing region of Napa County. The billionaires in the region have an outsized influence over the valley. Preserving this wine growing wonder of […]
Read More Crushing Fame GamesThe main ultimate highest priority of one of our two political parties is tax cuts. Even though if you take the time to go read the polls you will discover that a vast swath of the people of the United States are concerned with a great many other priorities. Grover Norquist’s Club for Growth has […]
Read More Lonely at the Top, Stupid at the BottomBy all accounts what work a hearty new arrival might find Patagonia is less than none.
Read More Finding Patagonia’s Better Nature