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A City and A Tower

By On May 4, 2020

This weekend we went to see our parents in the airy state of PA. I say airy, because of the space.  It’s almost like six feet was always too close for the people of Pennsylvania.

Everywhere I looked, I saw people with the same expression on their face. What was it?Confusion? Numb bewilderment? It’s almost as if we got wiped out by the junk food virus.

I’m not making claims about Pennsylvanians, mind you.  I see the same look in the eyes of my Marylanders and my New Yorkers. I see it on the TV people. I hear it in the voices of the NPR reporters.

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“Story” Here I Come

By On April 9, 2016

I’m really looking forward to going to Robert McKee’s Story Seminar in New York.  I’ve read his book a few times and found it really useful not only terms of composition, but also in teaching fiction and literature.  Writing is madness; McKee offers something like a method.  And though many will say that great writing can never come out of formula, such an insight comes after the fact. I’ll let talent speak for talent.  For me, there is only work and that is enough.

I’ll be sure to share the experience on this site and put together a thoughtful review when I am finished.  For those of you who don’t know who Robert McKee is, the movie Adaptation has an adaptation of one of his lectures.

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