Tuesday, August 14, 2018

Retirement presents itself.

Sunset at Lower Saranac Lake, NY
Sunset at Hunter Mountain, NY
Sunset at Hilton Head Island, SC
Sunset in Taos, NM




Tuesday, May 17, 2016

All my writing since october has been business writing.

No fiction since I left for Taos, NM in November 2015.  Out there, at 10,000 feet, some screenplay reviews and fixes but no additional scenes. More progress promoting Inconceivable! on paper and it was well received by students and colleagues. I am known there as "Steve, The Author" , based on past output, but not on current terms.

Creativity and self expression of a different sort exhibited itself in Taos.  I kept to  my pledge of contacting and enjoying silence, contacting and enjoying nature (often simultaneously), trusting my feelings and functioning smoothly. Certainly I was open to possibilities of all kinds, and all kinds of possibilities manifested beautifully.  But there was no output in terms of additional pages in Inconceivable!, The Screenplay.

Since returning, plenty of writing, but again, none in Final Draft.  A collaborator might have been nice to find for several writing projects, but though there were literary types on the  mountain and in the valley, not a screenwriter in the lot.

There was a flash of inspiration now and again regarding part 2 and some nuance added here and there.  It is still calling to be written, and now to be sold as a pair!





Saturday, October 31, 2015

Inconceivable! is fiction...on the other hand...

It's rare to bring homicide charges against a physician, but the case came amid a prescription drug abuse epidemic that has led lawmakers to try to rein in so-called pill mills that dole out medications with little scrutiny.
"You can't hide behind a white lab coat and commit crimes," Deputy District Attorney John Niedermann said. "Writing a prescription to someone knowing that they're going to abuse it and potentially die was the theory of second-degree murder that we had."
The doctor repeatedly ignored warning signs even after several patients died as she built a new medical clinic in Rowland Heights with the money she made from them, earning $5 million in one three-year period.