The Plot, the Pitch, the Point. Once there was a girl who spent most of her time in an imaginary land.  She had long conversations with the people and animals who lived there, and visited as frequently as possible.  As she got older, she spent less and less time there because things like homework and chores and an energetic little brother took up her time. She soon discovered other lands through reading, and made friends with Lucy and Edmund, Ramona Quimby, Frog and Toad, Holmes and Watson.  When she learned that not everyone visited these ... Read More

When my family went to see “The Royal Tenenbaums”, I had just returned from what I refer to as my “lost year” in Los Angeles.  While in L.A., I went through a divorce, dropped to a size 2  (not in a healthy way), spent entirely too much money on clothes I can no longer fit into, and abandoned any sense of loyalty or self-respect. My brother and me rode in my lime green beetle to meet my parents at the theater.  We smoked cigarettes and listened to music.  When we got there, Mom asked if we had been smoking, and we ... Read More

When do you find time to write? This is the question I am most often asked. And honestly, I think  because I don’t have very much time, I am more productive when I sit down.  I might only have fifteen minutes to add to a scene, or come up with a topic.  Right now, I have a client sitting in my chair with foils in her hair.  I am writing during the thirty minutes her color processes. I’ve also found that I am a tad bit crazy (okay, crazier) when I am not writing.  So I write for sanity’s sake.  The creative process ... Read More