Semi-Urban Cartography

It’s been a few months since I heard of my acceptance from The Deronda Review but to my surprise in the mail on Saturday I finally got my two contributor copies. Volume III. Issue #1, Fall and Winter of 2009-10. Immediately I opened the 8 1/2 x 11 magazine up and looked down the list [...]

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The new year 2010 has brought it’s usual brood of bad weather outside and renewed writing focus inside. My desk is absolutely teeming with ideas, the pile growing beside the computer, the “kitchen sinks” as I like to call them are filling. I can’t seem to contain that story churn characteristic.
Unlike what I detailed in [...]

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her name
found
written in a book

of Noel Coward’s
letters:

Andrea Drinard

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“Love Is A Dog From Hell” rejected for it’s unmarketable title.
Bar fighters (especially the loud ones, the mad ones) don’t improve their pugilistic. They make the evening news circuit. Live at 5:00, 6:30 and 11:00. Face notorious. Updates on-line regarding their whereabouts.
No novel, Post Office.
The arcade of whores and “mad women” who passed in and [...]

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October 19th, 2009
First day of writing the feature length, Promise Before The Sword. Using Blake Snyder’s “Beat Sheet” as a guidepost, I hand sketched out the first five pages of screen time (through “Theme Stated”). All of these scenes have been hashed out in concept months ago. These are the scenes for setting tone and [...]

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My first solo film-making production was the short “Too Many I’s” in 2004. Like so many writers who produce their own work, my first step ostensibly played out like an experiment. I had to answer significant questions.  Could I assemble a decent crew? Getting the right people to the church on time, until you’ve done [...]

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