“What about just writing to write.”  A friend of mine recently said that to me (I’m talking about you Liz Best).  We can get so caught up in our creative journeys that we sometimes forget the reason why we began those journeys in the first place.   Yes, of course everyone needs to make a living, […]

  Many may not know this about me, but I’ve written on this blog a few years back about the time I failed Grade 3 because of reading and writing.  More about that time later. By this point in my writing journey, I feel fairly confident of making the quarters/semi’s and sometimes finalist position of […]

In my new screenplay A PROMISE I MADE TO MR. BAGELS, a reclusive children’s author has been called home to help his stressed-out sister take care of their ailing  parents – a father in the latter stages of Alzheimer’s and a mother who suffers with various forms of mental illness for most of her adult […]

Do not turn away.  Watch what is happening.  While we are living our lives and going about our business, we are simultaneously seeing atrocities play out before our very eyes.   These images are eerily familiar to those seen in World War II.   The evil that is being perpetuated on an independent, free people has […]

I’ve known this beauty many years.   We met at York University.  I was majoring in Creative Writing (Playwriting and Screenwriting).  She was majoring in Film Production.  We met in Science and the Environment.  You read that correct.  Science and the Environment.  It was one of those elective courses we all had to take in our […]

We’ve had a lot of time alone.  Some of us haven’t seen each other for a while.  We most likely are missing family and friends.  And things are not like what they used to be.  The world has changed.  No matter how many of us want things to go back, we must always be present […]

First a quarter-finalist, then a semi-finalist and now my screenplay LET IT SHINE is a finalist in the 15th Annual StoryPros International Screenplay Contest.   Next week, the TOP 5 winners will be announced with the Grand Prize Winner receiving $2000.00 (and lots of other goodies), but more importantly, lots of exposure. LET IT SHINE lands […]

It’s encouraging to receive news that my writing has somehow made an impression on another person and/or contest/organization.  In the latest update, my screenplay BREAK AWAY is a quarter-finalist in the Shore Scripts Feature Contest.   Over a 1000 screenplays were entered and BREAK AWAY was in the TOP 8% of scripts.  Of course I didn’t […]

Let’s begin with the good news.  I received this email below from the Austin Film Festival where I submitted my play ANIMAL in their Playwriting Competition: Thank you for submitting your script, Animal into the 2021 Austin Film Festival Playwriting Competition. I am pleased to inform you that your Play advanced to the Second Round! […]

The three amigos here.  That middle amigo (my mom) has been through a lot these last couple of years and somehow she finds the will to endure.   She is an example of strength, fighting through mental illness for more than half her life, caring for my father for 7 years, who passed away from Alzheimer’s […]