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The Hourlings Podcast Project, E54, Crazy Research

Sci-Fi Short Film Friday: “The Leap"

Images that Inspire

 

Batavia, NY - 1978

 

Virtues of the Vicious - On Sale for $0.99

 

The Hourlings Podcast Project, E53, Family

Sci-Fi Short Film Friday: "Satisfaction Guaranteed"

Images that Inspire

 

Quotes Of the Week

Sometimes good things fall apart, so better things can come together.

—Marilyn Monroe

Don't be a writer. Be writing.

—William Faulkner

The cat sat on the mat is not a story. The cat sat on the other cat's mat is a story.

—John le Carré

Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

—E.L. Doctorow

The mere habit of writing, of constantly keeping at it, of never giving up, ultimately teaches you how to write.

—Gabriel Fielding

Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

—Anton Chekhov

Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.

—Alain de Botton

Let the readers do some of the work themselves. 

—Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Airstream

This is a new feature on the Blog. I will be providing images that will hint at things that will happen in the project I am currently writing.

--Kansas, 1969

Still Falling - On Sale for $0.99

 

Write Drunk?

 

The Hourlings Podcast Project, E52, Show Don't Tell

Sci-Fi Short Film Friday: "The Speed of Time"

Images that Inspire

 

Quotes of the Week.

 Write drunk; edit sober.

—Ernest Hemingway

The idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me is just bliss.

—J.K. Rowling

I try to pull the language into such a sharpness that it jumps off the page…. It must look easy, but it takes me forever.

—Maya Angelou

Sing your song. Dance your dance. Tell your tale. Inspire them.

—Frank McCourt

Six Years Out!

It's good to have a plan...

 

The Hourlings Podcast Project, E51, Screenplays

Sci-Fi Short Film Friday: "Come F*ck My Robot"

Images that Inspire

 

Quotes of the Week

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

—Ernest Hemingway

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write. 

—Anaïs Nin

You need that conviction that you are brilliant, this is the greatest idea that anybody has ever had, and that by writing it you will set the world on fire.

—Neil Gaiman

All drama is conflict. Without conflict, there is no action. Without action, there is no character. Without character, there is no story. And without story, there is no screenplay.

—Syd Field

The only thing that makes one an artist is making art. And that requires the precise opposite of hanging out; a deeply lonely and unglamorous task of tolerating oneself long enough to push something out.

—David Rakoff

The worst enemy of creativity is self-doubt.

—Sylvia Plath

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

—Steven King

Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners.

—Jimmy Stewart

Scenes From My Current Project: Time Enough

 This is a new feature on the Blog. I will be providing images that will hint at things that will happen in the project I am currently writing.

--Kansas, 1959

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The Hourlings Podcast Project, E50, Fight Scenes

Matrix 4: The Trailer...

Images That Inspire