I had the pleasure of attending a two-day tv writing workshop run by the man above,  Ins Choi, who is the writer of the play Kim’s Convenience and subsequent creator of the same show that ran on the CBC network.   I first met/saw Ins in a production of a play back in the early 2000’s […]

This above quote screamed out at me because it represents the basis of much of my writing.  The characters I am most fascinating with in film, literature and plays are the ones who are “seared with scars”. It does not take strength to live in courage if you have everything, if you’ve come from a […]

When I’m in the presence of these two remarkable women, life is pretty beautiful.  Annmarie Morais (“Annie”) I’ve know since my days at York.  A fellow writer as well – we often commiserate on the highs and lows of writing and what’s for lunch (because lunch is what’s really important).  She was a showrunner on […]

It’s always a good day when I receive an email like the one below: Also, this bit of information was posted on The Script Lab Contest site about the amount of entries submitted: A PROMISED I MADE TO MR. BAGELS is one of 1000 scripts that advanced to the 2nd Round of The Script Lab […]

I met Liz Best back in 2018.  I remember our first conversation.  My play ANIMAL was chosen by the Alumnae Theatre to have a public reading and I as the writer had to interview directors.   Liz sat across from me and one of the very first things she said was, “Oh, I really liked yours.”  […]

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 […]