Narrative Devices: Chernobyl
Okay, so maybe they employed a bit of creative license here and there (and by “they”, I mean Craig Mazin, the writer of CHERNOBYL) to tell a more focused story and drive a narrative that would keep us riveted. It worked, didn’t it? I took a while to get around to it, but in the […]
Mayday Mayday
My short stories are what they say on the tin. Short.Sometimes, really short.A few hundred words. Maybe fifteen hundred on a good day.And they are also stories. As in made up.Often I write about creepy, freaky, scary kids.This story is about a kid.But this one is true.It’s about one of my kids.And it’s the scariest […]
Mommy, my head hurts
Been watching a lot of amazing video essays breaking down screenwriting, screenplays and writing, as of late – big shoutout to Nerdwriter1 and Lessons from the Screenplay – so inevitably the gravitational pull of Christopher Nolan and the millions of theses produced on his films reeled me in like a Corellian corvette into the belly […]
The Girl on the Train Before with All the Gifts and a Dragon Tattoo
Whatever I write next, that’s what it’s going to be called. Regardless of whether there’s even a girl in the story. Or a human for that matter. Never minds trains, gifts or tattoos of mythical fire-breathing beasts. I have to imagine that at some stage in the publication process, a version of this exchange sometimes takes […]