Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Radio Drama

Radio drama was the first writing that really hooked me.
I remember listening to my folks' radio as I fell asleep.

While I'm not old enough to have heard Dimension X as I was growing up. This was the kind radio I loved.

Tips for Young Writers

Great tips for Young Writers?
These are great for any writers.


Thursday, May 23, 2013

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Wednesday, May 01, 2013

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Lessons Learned from Season Three of Boardwalk Empire

I enjoyed Season One of Boardwalk Empire. I liked the world, the performances (for the most part) and the writing was pretty good too. Season Two sucked. Characters hit the same beats over and over as the stories treaded water for no reason that I could see. I was glad when it was over. I was finished with it and I didn't see how it could proceed into a third season based on the thinly spread elements at the end of a second. Then came Season Three. From the first scene of the first episode of the season it grabbed me and held my head under water until I surrendered. It would be too simple to say that a single character saved a show. There was an infusion of new talent creating the stories and shooting them too. History helped out the story department too. But I'm never going to under-estimate the power of one character to turn a world on its head the way Bobby Cannavale's Gyp Rossetti's did. Rossetti raised the stakes in every scene he was in. He forced every character he came in contact with to take a stand. He always made me wonder what was going to happen next. And he did it by making choices and following through on them.

Tuesday, March 05, 2013

Why Downtown Abbey Season Three Sucks.

Ken Levine makes a calm and lucid case of the rant I've been making for the past couple months.