Tom, a Woman Alone and ". . . and you said . . ."

I revised my story “A Woman Alone in a Cruel World” this week. It is a fable set in an ancient time. I want my wife to read it before I posted it. She hasn’t read it yet. She says it looks too depressing. Maybe I need to change the title.

“Tom and his Incredible Traffic Model” has been sitting idle for a while now. I hope to get back to it this coming week. It is a humorous piece inspired by years of work as a transportation planner.

I submitted one of my short film movie scripts, “. . . and you said . . .” to a script competition being run by the Show Us Your Shorts Film Festival.

I am looking at a couple of websites for selling my films on-line. One is Mishorts and the other is Payloadz . So far, they both look promising.

This week I watched Steve Hanon’s latest film: The Last of the River People . If you have a chance to see it, I suggest you do. I think this is his best films so far. It is a subtle film.

Abandoned Scripts: What Do You Do When You Can’t Get That Big Star

I have posted a new article I wrote: Abandoned Scripts: What Do You Do When You Can’t Get That Big Star

Excerpt: The filmmaker Federico Fellini wrote scripts planning to have some famous actors play the leads. Many times, he could not get them. I am sure that most writers and filmmakers run into this problem. It has certainly has happened to me. I am certainly no Fellini. If he can’t get someone famous, what chance do I have? With some projects, you can go ahead with different actors, but with others, you have to abandon them. Here are a few of the ideas that I’ve had to abandon.

If you know of anyone who might find this article interesting, please pass this along to them.

I am working on another couple of stories now and will be posting them as soon as they are done. One is a fable set in the distant past and the other is a humorous piece drawing from my experiences in transportation planning.

Please have a look at one of my old stories: The Parasol