Dennis Palumbo, MFT, is a writer and licensed psychotherapist in private practice, specializing in creative issues. This is from an interview for Shrink Rap Radio:
Initially, when you start writing, or at least when I started writing, you think the reward is, wow! It’ll be so great to see my words on screen, to see [...]
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Therapist Dennis Palumbo on the inner life of writers
The Writers TeleSummit 2008
Eric Maisel - Author, Creativity Coach and Co-Founder of TeleSummits.com
John Dillon & Vivian Nesbitt - hosts and moderators
September 4th through September 7th, 2008. 24 great sessions. 6 one-hour sessions over four days, conveniently scheduled to suit your needs whether you live on the East Coast, the West Coast, or anywhere in between. (And if you [...]
Michael Chabon: Entertainment has a bad name
From essay: Let me entertain you, By Michael Chabon
Entertainment has come to mean junk. But its definition also should include everything pleasurable that arises from an encounter with literature.
Entertainment has a bad name. Serious people learn to mistrust and even to revile it. The word wears spandex, pasties, a leisure suit studded with blinking [...]
Diablo Cody on being confessional and totally candid
Diablo Cody’s script Juno earned her an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. In some interviews and her own writing before the Oscar win, she talked about keeping her work real.
From Diablo Cody’s Tips for Blogging Your Way to Hollywood Success, By John Scott Lewinski, Wired magazine site:
“One of my teachers told me that I [...]
Getting Back on Track
A newsletter from The Writers Store exclaims, “It’s over! The 100-Day Writers Strike has officially ended, with 92.5% of WGA members voting to return to work.
“The business of show business will once again run full steam ahead! The spec script market is anticipating another mid 90’s-style boom, as agents and producers gear up to start [...]
J.K. Rowling on writing and depression
Depression hit Rowling when her first marriage to a television journalist broke down after just two years.
She had moved to Portugal to teach English and gave birth to her first daughter Jessica.
She said: “I’d had a short and quite catastrophic marriage. I had to get my baby back to Britain and re-build us a life [...]
