One did not have to be a screenwriter to see how participating in a teleconference session such as I did today helps one’s overall writing skills, since clearly there are overlapping principles which benefit you in almost any type of written communication. (more…)
Still more of the warming glow of enlivened clichés (with the original in italics):
The human brain is a curious instrument. It is remarkably like the sea, possessing deeps and shallows – cold dark profundities and sunny crests. It has its breakers dashing in to shore, and its sullen backwashes. Swift currents race beneath a surface ruffled by minor winds. And there a constant pulsing rhythm in it very like the tides. For it possesses periods of ebb, when all inspiration recedes into the blind plumy distance; and periods of flow, when strong thoughts come hurtling in, resistless and supreme.
From The Chinese Orange Mystery Ellery Queen (orig. published 1934)
From a recent interview with Bill Mumy, best known for playing Will Robinson on the original LOST IN SPACE 1960s TV series…
Regarding the legacy of his experience from appearing at age seven on an award winning episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents titled ‘Bang, Your Dead’ (1961): (more…)
More of the warming glow of enlivened clichés (with the original in italics):
“All my stories, unconnected as they may be, are based on the fundamental lore or legend that this world was inhabited at one time by another race who, in practicing black magic, lost their foothold and were expelled, yet live on outside ever ready to take possession of this earth again.”
H.P. Lovecraft (1890 – 1937)
inspiration for many writers & contributors, including Rod Serling & Stephen King
closest visual representation in today’s arts would be NBC’s “Grimm”
the watch of time 
Tips for Rewriting – Part Two
As noted in part one of ‘Tips for Rewriting’ (of course, subject itself to a degree of rewriting), depending on how close one is to the project submission deadline, the rewriting emphasis shifts from bigger picture revision to more fine-tuning. (more…)
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