A Writer’s Roots: My Super Powers and Secret Wars as a Wordslinger
“I can’t believe it’s been twenty-five years since I bought my first Super Powers figure!” said the salt-and-pepper haired hipster working the floor at St. Mark’s Comics while pointing out a few...
View ArticleTen Pages a Day: Getting Your Screenplay From First Page to First Draft
Traditional screenwriting is kaput, in my humble opinion. For those of you who follow my tweets and Facebook status updates, you might recall that a few weeks ago I finished the first draft of my...
View ArticleAuteurs Rising: Filmmaking’s First Act Revisited
I recently had a brief but insightful discussion with a screenwriter friend of mine about just how long it should take to write a short script. Apparently, someone mentioned she’d taken a while to...
View ArticleCagney, City for Conquest, and the Invention of the Postmodern Protagonist
As many of you may know from reading my late night tweets and Facebook updates, I’ve been immersing myself in James Cagney movies ever since I stumbled on his old residence in New York a couple months...
View ArticleΦιλότιμο: Not Without Understanding When Felt Within
A couple Saturdays a month, I try and spend some time with a dear friend of my family’s named Maria. She owns a small Greek bakery on Central Avenue in Union City called Liberty Brand Pastries and...
View ArticleHitting The Writer’s Block (And Breaking Right On Through It)
In all my nearly twenty years as a poet and writer, I’ve never believed in writer’s block. And this isn’t a piece expounding on how I suddenly found myself staring into the blank Microsoft Word...
View ArticleRunning Through the Sixth with my WOEs
I don’t write much about my grammar school years. They were pretty much standard: I cried the first day my Mom and Dad “left me” at kindergarten (I didn’t think they were coming back); between first...
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