Tag: screenwriting

March 18, 2014 /

When you’re a screenwriter, navigating Hollywood can be tricky…

December 7, 2013 /

Hollywood hausfrau waxes lyrical on Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll in new novel

Okay. I’ll cut it out now. But on a serious note: thank you for reading along and putting up with all my self-referential hooey. Merci beaucoup, from the bottom of my heart.

December 7, 2013 /

I was thinking of calling my first novel, “Snowball in Hell”, but…

I decided against it. Here’s a description of the novel from the back of the book cover:
December 7, 2013 /

Holy Moses! My novel is called, “It’s in His Kiss”

The editor has done all his work… And I have integrated his suggestions into the text… With a minimum of bickering, a lot of laughing, and some intellectual stretching. Monday on I read the manuscript out loud—it’s the only way—you have to HEAR during that last bit of the process…

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December 4, 2013 /

More unsolicited advice on writing your first novel – STOP

If you sit hunched at your computer all the time you will turn into a quivering mass of protoplasm. Get up, stretch, take a walk… Now, get back to work.

December 2, 2013 /

This week the line-editor and I complete the manuscript

Driving home from Dim Sum Sunday the weekend after Thanksgiving, we came to a road so beautiful, so golden with autumn, that I made The Mister pull over and hopped out of the car to snap this picture. As it is I can barely contain myself, because—drum roll please—this is…

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April 7, 2013 /

TWISTING BY THE POOL – CONTINUED

As you might have gleaned by now, when there’s a story to tell about Hollywood, I’m inclined to change the names and mix it up a bit to protect the innocent. What follows is mostly true, except what’s not. At the end of summer, after several restorative sessions, Ms. Todd…

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