When demons from his past come back to haunt an artistic father, his life-long struggle with mental illness resurfaces and throws his family into turmoil, threatening his son’s burgeoning hockey career.  Break Away is a psychological thriller with action bouncing back and forth between the brutality of mental illness and the pure grit it takes […]

We are tied to our past for better or worse.  If you want to know who you are today and how you turned out and even where you are going, look back to your past.  In my writings, the past plays a prominent role.   The photo above was taken approximately in 1960.  It’s hard to […]

A PROMISE I MADE TO MR. BAGELS was a quarter-finalist, then a semi-finalists and now I received news the script is a FINALIST in the StoryPros International Screenwriting Contest.  The above is just a partial list of finalists.  You can find the complete list HERE.  My script is in the TOP 5% of all entrants […]

Judging for StoryPros’s 16th Annual International Screenplay Contest is underway and my latest screenplay, A PROMISE I MADE TO MR. BAGELS  made the first round of cuts and is officially a Quarter-finalist.  Above is a sampling of some of the screenplays that made the first round. If you look carefully at the name below mine, […]

Bruises heal.  Most of them do.  Some physical ones leave a mark, some emotional ones linger, but over the long haul, we as humans, adapt pretty good and move on or let go. I have taken my share of bruises over the years when it comes to my creative writing.  There have been some great […]

At nine years of age she was making dinners for her family and babysitting her 2 year old brother and 4 year old sister.   It was during these early years of her childhood that she used to hear the sounds of a trumpet come from the magnificent mountains of the land.  It was from a […]

Let’s start with the GOOD.  My screenplay LET IT SHINE just placed in the TOP 10% of all entries in this year’s Page International Screenwriting Awards.  To put some perspective on this, I was one of 994 scripts that advanced out of a field of approximately 9000 screenplays.   To put further perspective on this, I […]

A PROMISE I MADE TO MR. BAGELS wins the Top Prize in the Wiki Screenplay Contest My screenplay A PROMISE I MADE TO MR. BAGELS has won the Wiki Screenplay Contest.   Wiki is a screenplay contest which has mini contests held every month.  They receive about 100 entries each month.  I entered because I wanted […]

“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 […]