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January is for writing – a (bloody?) comedy about love.

I’ve been working on my comedy about love this afternoon, no it’s not a romantic comedy – because I said so. I’ve been playing around with a couple of opening scenes (set at a wake) including this one (set in the bathroom of a community centre). Trixie dramatically flings open her stall door and then […]

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research writing

Researching Poetry and Channeling 16-year olds

I am currently swathed in cashmere [vintage, it tried to snow in Vancouver last night – crazy!!], sipping chocolate mint tea [from my own garden] and researching “dark” poetry for a young adult novel I am working on called ‘TIL DEATH [working title]. I wrote a short film with the same premise last summer when […]

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writing

‘Til Death – Chapter One (1st Draft)

Spending the day combing through my works in progress, and, not only can’t I decide if this should be the short story that I intended to write or if it has the legs to be expanded into a young adult novel, but also, I can’t decide if this should be my next project either.  I […]

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writing

LOVE LIES BLEEDING @ THE COLD READING SERIES

Just found out that the first act of my feature script LOVE LIES BLEEDING will be read at the Cold Reading Series this Thursday, July 29th. Logline: Pamela just wants to reunite in the afterlife with her dead fiancé, Grady.  Problem is, Grady was a secret agent, and his coded emails have infuriated both his […]

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baking webseries writing

SiftingRealities: Episode Five: ALL THE WRONG PEOPLE

This is the sixth episode of my web series SiftingRealities.  At the end of episode 4, Belinda seems to think she’s got this whole “sifting” thing under control, but does she?  Oh, those are shortbread cookies she is making and eating in the final scene… I’ll post the recipe later on today.

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baking webseries writing

Sifting Realities: Episode Four: NOT SUPPOSED TO BE HERE

In our fifth episode of SiftingRealities, Belinda attempts to exert some sort of control over the craziness she thinks her brain is projecting… if the pills won’t work perhaps she can find away to stop the other realities from bleeding into her own… “I’m not as judgemental as you always make me seem.”  Ah, Marie […]

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webseries writing

SiftingRealities: Episode Three: ZOMBIE IN THE GARDEN

This episode was my favourite on the page, a worry in the casting (boy, was I silly, because the cast additions: Eliza Faria, who plays Annie and Sebastian Kroon, who plays Courier/Zombie Stan totally rock), and took the longest to cut/tweak/colour but, through all that, I STILL think it is my all round favourite episode. […]

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writing

New story idea today…

…though I was supposed to be locking cut on SiftingRealities, Episode One today, I did take a few moments to jot down a few scenes floating around in my head. One of them kind of goes like this: He didn’t much like taking the lead, but no one else was communicating effectively. He turned to […]