The Confession Two days left before the Nicholl Fellowship deadline… and I’m not done with my rewrite. I got distracted by deciding to executive produce and direct a short film, then my servers went down earlier this week throwing my work schedule off. Grrr…. Okay, so I think I will finish a re-write tonight. A [...]
Archive for April, 2004
Equal Rights Lately, I have been participating in a message board thread on women in ministry. It has given me pause… My gut reaction is to say that people have a right to believe and practice religion in a manner they see fit. While I disagree with those who would limit the roles women can [...]
Distractions It is quite a balancing act to discern the difference between obsession with your work and the proper focus a project deserves. I find myself being easily distracted and often by important things. I know I do not ever want work to come in the way of relationships with people. Our friends and family [...]
Making Films David Mamet has influenced me too much. He strongly encourages making your own films outside of the studio system, and I have caught the bug. I have not blogged much the bast week because I have been caught up in casting a short film I have written and will soon direct. The film [...]
Happy Easter Anything I try to say about this sacred day seems trite to me. It is a special day. Roswell Season 1 A friend from THEOOZE sent me a gift! Season 1 Roswell on DVD! I was so stoked… I haven’t had the money to purchase this, and I figured it would be a [...]
Disconnected Why is it so easy to feel disconnected from God? I get so busy sometimes… It has been a few days and all of a sudden I have a moment to reflect. Then I think… God and I haven’t spoken for awhile. Then I do something else. Part of me wants to give God [...]
Pilot – The Journeyman Many writers won’t waste their time on projects that have less than a snowball’s chance in hell of ever getting off the ground, but not me. I will totally immerse myself in work which will probably never bear fruit… Okay, so that’s not actually ture. I am an eternal optimist, so [...]
Hangman’s Curse Based on a novel by Frank Peretti, Hangman’s Curse tells the story of a high school plagued by the curse of a boy who hanged himself. I know the casting director of this film, so I had been wanting to check it out for a long time. I can say I was more [...]
Fun Crazy Man I went to a movie in Santa Monica with my friend Annie, and the highlight of our evening was the guy we have affectionately nicknamed “fun crazy man.” On the way back to the car after the movie, this guy looks at us and just makes all sorts of funny noises out [...]