The View Up Here

I'm dressing up a short script I started last fall but put away when Mom got so awfully sick. Oddly, it's a story about how people grieve. Based on a true if incredible story told to me by my sister-in-law, it centers around a woman trying to grieve her murdered sister, and the biker gang who comes to pay their respects. The submission is for Stone Canoe, an arts journal here in the Finger Lakes, for the spring 2010 issue. Whether I get in or not, it feels really good to finally finish off this short piece. I'll find other places for it if the folks at Stone Canoe pass. Oh, and the soundtrack (my writing music) is Neil Young. Thank you, Pandora.com!

I am pleased to have another microfiction published at Six Sentences: Wellingtons

Paleo-Future.com just published a number of children's letters from 1976, predicting what life would be like in the year 2000. This one seems to know where we're headed in the year 2009. I especially like the part about driving as fast as I want to without the worries of getting a ticket: Dear Laurie, I think in the year 2000 the earth will be much more polluted than it is. I also think that we will have no more school, and cars can go as fast as they want without getting a ticket. The government will pay every person as much as they want without them having to work. I also think we will be out of energy for stores or anything that uses fuel in the year 2000. Sincerely,

Just about finished with final edits to my as yet untitled sci fi (or should I say SyFy?) screenplay. I had a title, but then there was a TV show and at least 3 films over the last 10 years to hog that title. I came up with a temporary title, which I've been assured is pretty crappy. But the good news is my new writing partner gave me valuable feedback which is enabling me to shake things up a bit more in Act II. Isn't that always the thing? Lately my Idea Log has been bursting. More ideas than I can start writing at the moment. I'll need those in the dead of January when my brain is mired in the Upstate NY winter slush. Looking forward to the semester this fall. I'll be teaching two sections of intro to screenwriting again at Ithaca College, and a section of developmental writing at TC3. That's five days a week of being in the classroom. Yessss! Also looking forward to the Rod Serling Conference this October. I served as a reader again this year for the sc...