MOVIE REVIEW: Joker This film was surrounded in controversy right from the beginning with warnings about how dark and triggering it might be for viewers. For a moment I am going to be a realist, controversy drives intrigue, intrigue drives tickets sales, tickets sales drives opinions, and round the loop, we go. After viewing the […]
What I have learned about writing #improvement #growth
July 15, 2019 by
My first book was published in 2013. That seems a long time ago now but for writing that’s not very long at all. If you add the time before that publication, there were a few blooper manuscripts. If you were to ask me how long I have been writing, I would have to say about […]
Another year goes by! 2019 will be great. #GreatBeginnings #PositiveThoughts
December 6, 2018 by
I’ve had a challenging but fabulous year! I’m very grateful to have experienced small personal progress artistically with receiving a special commendation from the British Independent Film Festival for my feature film, Grandfathers. This year I had two more poems published in an art and literature journal. Out of Frame was published in February […]
The Business of Christmas #strategies #compassion #selfhelp
November 28, 2018 by
Will this Christmas be a good one? This might depend on what you are expecting, a BMW or a calm family get-together. I often talk about expectations and motivation behind the quality of what we do in our life. I will remind you again of this. We are the masters of our lives. We get […]
Life works out for us #perception #selfefficacy #selfexploration #selfbelief
November 27, 2018 by
Does it? Really? Well, maybe not the way we expect or demand at certain times in our lives. However, we can look back and say the ‘not so good’ things that happened to us prompted reflection and learning. Perhaps our disappointments encouraged us to reach for a new way to do something, to search for […]
A Screenwriting kind of way. #writers #festivals #competitions
May 4, 2018 by
Some of you might know I received a commendation for Best Unproduced Screenplay at the British Independent Film Festival last month. You can find the logline under awards on the BIFF website here Yes, a fantastic achievement both as a writer and as a female writer. But this is where the work begins if the […]
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