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by Doug Lewars I believe I was in high-school when I first stumbled across a modernistic book that was devoid of plot. I wasn’t attempting to read modern literature at the time. What I wanted was science fiction and this book was classified as such. After sixty pages I closed the book and […] via On… Continue reading On Writing: A Word on Plot — A Writer’s Path

by Doug Lewars It’s easy isn’t it? You wrote it so naturally you remember it. Such is not always the case. I’m reminded of a book I wrote some years ago. It’s a fantasy and a woman is killed and moved into something I refer to as the Midworld. Anyway, not knowing her […] via Remembering… Continue reading Remembering What You Wrote — A Writer’s Path

by Phoebe Quinn My Twitter timeline is awash with urging. Write every day. Even if it’s for ten minutes. Just write. Write well and often. And so on. But, should you really be writing every day? via Why I Don’t Write Every Day — A Writer’s Path

I love reading and writing action-orientated stories. It doesn’t matter if it’s a movie or book—I love all the action with fights, weapons, car chases, martial arts, or an old-fashioned shootout. It may sound easy enough to write, but you might be surprised what it takes to make your fight scene really shine and […] via… Continue reading Writing Action Scenes — A Writer’s Path

by Larry Kahaner All writers get the same advice. Read the great writers; study the great works. Learn how seasoned, professional, and successful authors get the job done. All true, but I maintain that it’s also crucial for writers to read crap to learn what not to do. via Why Writers Should Read Crap — A… Continue reading Why Writers Should Read Crap — A Writer’s Path

!!! A+ FILM !!! The Killing is both a beginning and an end for Stanley Kubrick; although he made two earlier features, one barely released and one that briefly rotated on the B-grade circuit, this is the first of his films that matters in any broader sense, and the one that effectively launched his career […]… Continue reading The Killing (1956, Stanley Kubrick) — Slices of Cake

!!! A+ FILM !!! It took multiple nights for me to make it through Early Summer, not at all a boring film and hardly a long one (just over two hours), first because it has been a very troubling and stressful few days, secondly because I was so overwhelmed by its beauty and gravity that […]… Continue reading Early Summer (1951, Yasujiro Ozu) — Slices of Cake

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED To make a very 1940s analogy, the differing interpretations and uses of Humphrey Bogart by various great directors are not terribly dissimilar in scope to those of fellow Warner Bros. star Bugs Bunny; Bugs was a distinctive, iconic character but also a malleable one, and Friz Freleng’s Bugs is eventually very easy to […]… Continue reading Key Largo (1948, John Huston) — Slices of Cake

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal is sometimes viewed, along with certain early works of Kurosawa and Fellini, as the film that launched arthouse and foreign cinema as viable fixtures of cultural conversation in America, at least in the big cities and among the intellectual classes; it’s hard to say whether it was as […]… Continue reading The Seventh Seal (1957, Ingmar Bergman) — Slices of Cake

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED The setting of Robert Zemeckis’ debut film is New York City on February 9, 1964, the night of the Beatles’ first performance on The Ed Sullivan Show, the bellwether event of the British Invasion and of the re-ignition of rock & roll in general. A group of New Jersey teenagers descend on CBS […]… Continue reading I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978, Robert Zemeckis) — Slices of Cake