Interview at Innsmouth Free Press
I've been interviewed at the fine, H.P. Lovecraft-inspired horror site, "Innsmouth Free Press" (www.innsmouthfreepress.com). I yawp about writing & sci-fi & The Cyclopedia Of Worlds & the new novel. Read it…
Video – Watch A Writer Sulk For An Hour!
You see, the thing is: I hate writing. Always have. I find it tedious and exhausting and very difficult. But it seems to be something I'm good at.So, yes, there…
Writing For Pictures Workshop – London, 7 March, 2009
For you who are in London - or England - or anywhere in the UK - anywhere in Europe, for that matter - I'm conducting a workshop for writers, the…
Great Movie Monologues 5 – "Jaws"
Watching "Jaws" (1975) again, I am reminded - again - of how perfect a film it is. Performances, music & sound design, editing, and writing come together to make a…
Short Film "Unto Dust" Wraps
I'm happy as a sandboy to announce that our short film, "Unto Dust" is in the can. I wrote the movie, based on the short story by Herman Charles Bosman…
How Now Low Crow
I've finished a first draft of the script and have handed it in to The Producers. It's pretty good. But not great. It's a first draft. The fact that I…
White Hunter, Black Heart 3
Clint Eastwood's "White Hunter, Black Heart" (1990) - in which director Eastwood plays director John Huston on the shoot of Huston's "The African Queen" - is one of the great…
White Hunter, Black Heart 2
Clint Eastwood's "White Hunter, Black Heart" (1990), based on the book by Peter Viertel, is the thinly fictionalized account of the production of John Huston's "The African Queen" (1951), with…
White Hunter, Black Heart 1
Clint Eastwood's "White Hunter, Black Heart" (1990), a fictionalized account of John Huston's making of "The African Queen" (1951) - with Eastwood playing Huston - is a superb and underrated…
Daughters of Writers
Tomorrow, my wife starts her new job far away in the wastes of North London.This means I will be back full time taking care of The Small Child, while being…