(Continued from Part One)
So I was doing pretty well in the theater world. My plays were being produced across the country and abroad, and my pieces were being published in various anthologies. I thought I was developing a fairly good grasp of long-form storytelling. So I started adapting my own work [...]

It was a nice holiday week. Every time I go back home to the Bay Area I forget how dark it is there at night — or I fail to recall how fluorescent LA’s night sky is. The Bay Area is also a lot more granola — the spirit of Jerry Garcia [...]

I thought it would be interesting to write a post on finding my way into screenwriting from theater. So here it is:
There are a lot of differences between playwriting and screenwriting. One is a medium of dialogue; the other is a visual medium. One is a writers’ medium; the [...]

Hey, now that The Wire is over for me, here is my new favorite teevee show: Meet The Natives.
I initially avoided this series thinking that it was a 21st century version of aboriginals attempting to return a coke bottle. But it’s far from that — the show is about five guys from [...]

Oh man, when I was a kid there was nothing better than coming home from school and knowing that you had a three day weekend ahead of you. I’d have an extra day to drink chocolatey Quik and watch Transformers and play Rescue Raiders and Infocom games on my Apple ][e. It [...]