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Archive for December, 2006

Promoting Your Writing: Get Noticed to Get a Writing Job

Friday, December 29th, 2006

A long road for Alan Ball Getting the needed meetings to get his script for “American Beauty” actually produced [by DreamWorks] only happened some years after Alan Ball [photo] was discovered by a talent scout at Carsey-Werner Television who had seen his play, Five Women Wearing the Same Dress. Never schlep coffee again In a [...]

Ethnic Writers – Nathalie Handal: “All that I observe, that I experience, filters itself into words.”

Friday, December 22nd, 2006

The world is a poem As a poet, writer, playwright, director, and producer, Nathalie Handal articulates the primacy of words and experience in responding to an interview question about the inspiration for her poetry collection The Lives of Rain: “To me, the world is a poem, a poem I keep writing and re-writing. All that [...]

A Writer’s Inner Life – Cat Robson: “My hunger to write continues.”

Monday, December 11th, 2006

In spite of myself, my hunger to write continues. Like a rogue wave, determined to hold up the meaning of my life against the undertow of my culture, my past, and my family’s fundamentalism, it surges and ebbs. I want to trust it. To be carried into the deeper waters of the things I do [...]