Pull my (Trigger) Finger Script
My third novel was set on the pre-production of a huge action movie, so I learned as much as a Canadian Prairie boy can about the film industry. I floated some title ideas for my next book on Facebook, and one of them was sooo cool that the question went viral and so did one […]
I love Wattpad but I’ve been scared of it too. I’m not a short story writer. Doing film scripts has helped with that. For a feature film you have to write compelling scenes in minimal time but it’s more than that. The people who want to buy scripts might only glance at the first and […]
Judging the Judges: Surviving a Screenplay Contest
I submitted a script to 3 top festivals and here’s my evaluation for others considering the same route. LA International screenplay awards ($60). Not great. They only read the first 5 and last 5 pages, if that, and their analysis was wildly wrong. Wrong protagonist, wrong plot. A waste of time and money in my case. […]
I always have five or ten writing projects on the go. Scripts are way quicker so I gravitate to them but my heart is in the better and bigger characters of a novel. Every one is a fulfilling play of words into an irresistable voice. With a script, 90% of that is, at best, implied. […]
Is Omicron going to overwhelm us…? Omicron hit South Africa like a wildfire, spreading so fast, the charts only show how many tests are performed. The actual rate is probably much higher. This has public health officials freaking out. If everything else remains the same, there will be bodies lining the streets. But it looks […]
In December of 2020, Professor Don Kerr of the University of Saskatchewan passed away. No one has influenced my life or my art more. He taught a very popular film class in the English faculty that took two years to get into. And it was awesome. Professor Kerr had a wildly different approach to teaching […]
By some miracle, I made it into the one and only Film class in my university a long time ago. It was 80% film appreciation/history, 10% comparing theater to film, and 10% study of legendary directors’ styles. It didn’t leave me thinking I could make a movie. Then this book sent me into years of […]
Build a Swing Set with minimal Planning.
I drew up some plans for a swing set for the kids.
Mountain adventure with a twist. Literally.
Halfway between the turnoff for the hotsprings and the Jasper townsite sits Cinquefoil Mountain, a spectacular 3-mile ridge scramble. It’s a steep but easy hike, unless you’re really unlucky. Cinquefoil Mountain is named for the flowers that grow on its slopes. I was living alone in Hinton at the time, and had gone through through […]
I live half an hour from Jasper National Park, so I go there all the time. Sometimes I get some friends together for a backcountry camping trip. This year we rented a huge 27-foot canoe for four days out on Maligne Lake. The choices were 2 normal canoes or this monster. We waffled on it […]
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