Doorknobs & Boomsticks
I’ve been playing with a new YA novel, perhaps a series, if it’s of interest to anyone. Doorknobs & BoomsticksA Tale of Perceptions Chapter 1: Red Light, Tweed Man, and a Doctor’s Bag Tink was unique. Not in the “everyone is unique” way you hear from parents and teachers. No. Tink, all of 12 years of age, red curls and …
Talking about AD with JV!
The Quips Stop Here
I love Joss Whedon’s writing. It’s why I wrote “Firefly: Old Wounds” the first audio drama fan-fiction in the ‘Verse. But, Whenesque writing has really hurt modern shows and seems especially to infect a lot of audio drama.Quippy dialogue can be painful when it doesn’t fit the character. When it works best is when it’s limited not to events as …
Quora: How can I create an audio drama with my friends?
Audio Drama (Radio Drama to some) has become a kind of hot topic for those in the know more recently. My weekly podcast/radio show “The Sonic Society” features new audio drama from around the world now for fourteen straight years. Creating audio drama is so much easier than filming movies, and has become a favourite entry-point for many storytellers because …
The Journey is the Way
Got this from the talented Trevor Rines and it reminded me of a writer’s group I sat in on online this week. One of the writers was speaking about trying to write “against the tropes”, and anyone who knows me, certain contemporary words tend to get my hackles up (you notice I didn’t say “triggers me” ) The thing is, …
How do I Write More in my Journals?
Following up on my last post some folks find it hard to get going. The process of journal writing is the process of discovering, uncovering and sometimes recovering.To do this effectively you need to follow the steps.Step 1: ListingList everything that comes to mind. This is called free association. Therapists have used this term for decades. For example, if I say the …
The Therapeutic Journal
This year I’ve begun all my classes with Journal writing. I get students to begin by taking some prompt that is very nebulous and listing whatever comes to mind. I’ve focused these journal prompts in three areas Mind(M), Practices (P), and Ethic/Morality/Spirit (E). So, you may have a prompt that says “Justice (E)” or “10 Weeks (P)”, or “Schooling (M)”. …
Imagino-Cred
It’s the late-1970’s and I’m downstairs watching a black and white Admiral TV that my parents had handed down from my Grandparents. It was old even for us by about two decades, but like so many things back then, they were built to last. I crept downstairs as quietly as the century-old wooden staircase would let me, and made myself …