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10Jan

The last 18 months

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Well, I lied. I did indeed let a year go by without a post, but it wasn’t 2020. I published chapters of a serial novel that year, plus posted a short story I’d written back in 2001. I have since removed those posts because I am working on expanded, improved versions of both those stories. […]

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9Mar

One year later: an update

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A lot has happened since my last post, in February of 2018. First, I changed out the Judgment of Parrish page for Advocate + Guardian. Back in 2015(!), I paused production on Judgment of Parrish when it won the FadeIn grand prize and was being circulated among producers, none of whom want a movie already in the works. Nobody […]

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19Dec

Santa Fraud is coming to town

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My kids have been haranguing me for a PlayStation 4 for years now. I’m fed up. So they’re getting this, courtesy of their former packaging designer dad. Yes, I’ve worked with quite a few Chinese vendors. No, the game titles on the back aren’t “real.” (But yes, there’s a real “PS4” in there.)

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26Oct

Hypergraphics and the people who envy them

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“Comparison is the thief of joy” – attributed to Theodore Roosevelt I’m writing a book. It started as a screenplay, but on draft three, I realized it bore a fundamental flaw that wrecked the entire story. So I started writing in prose form the thoughts and observations of the various characters in order to get […]

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1Apr

Riting by hand

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I wrote this entry by hand and edited it as I typed. I don’t know the science behind it, but apparently handwriting energizes neural pathways in the brain that typing does not. So I am stuck, stymied on my current opus. Why not try handwriting? Handwriting is so enjoyable. There is an esoteric pleasure in […]

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16Dec

The Director’s Nightmare

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“90% of directing is casting.” – Elia Kazan “I never said all actors are cattle. What I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.” – Alfred Hitchcock Actors terrify me. I am not one, and while I count actors among my closest friends, I really don’t understand them. I have taken acting classes […]

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