Category: Writing
Life After Eat Pray Love
So many wonderful take-aways from this interview of +Elizabeth Gilbert!!! She openly shares everything about life before during and after the massive success of her #EatPrayLove phenomenon. I knew she was funny and brilliant but never this much. Here are just some of the things I loved about this interview in no certain order: Her Oprah story is…
David Foster Wallace
I absolutely adore this video based on the commencement speech by the late great David Foster Wallace to the graduating class of Kenyon College of 2005 is an awe inspiring work of art. This video is just as amazing as the speech itself. It’s so well-done. It captures the best parts of the speech and…
Christmas Carol Inspirations
I’ve shared my passion for “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens a few times on here before. First about the many different versions of the classic tale and then about “Ghosts of Dickens’ Past” which is an excellent movie about what inspired him to write his story. I’d like to share some more things that…
Virginia Poe
Exciting stuff. For 200 years it was believed that there was only one portrait of Edgar Allan Poe’s wife Virginia who died tragically young of consumption at age 24 but new discoveries have unveiled a few more including this beauty. As it turns out, the shy, demur bride was a model and posed for many…
Nora Ephron
I was very sad when I heard about Nora Ephron passing away at the age of 71 due to Leukemia. She has always been one of my favorite writers. I’ve covered some of her movies on here with entries for Heartburn and Julie and Julia. I still plan to share my thoughts on her other…
The New Celtx
I was pleasantly surprised when I decided to visit www.Celtx.com tonight and discovered their whole new website and platform. It’s always been the best writing tool for screenwriters with its free desktop application but now they’ve built a very useful writing desk in the cloud. They now offer all of the features that came with…
Christopher Hitchens
We just lost one of the best writers and most brilliant minds with the passing of Christopher Hitchens (age 62). He succumbed to cancer after a year and a half battle. He continued to write and share his thoughts on life and ultimately, death. Here’s a tribute from Vanity Fair. Here’s Christopher’s final piece: Trial…
Lorraine Hansberry
I’ve always been a big fan of Lorraine Hansberry who died much too young at the age of 34 in 1965. She is best known for writing “A Raisin in the Sun” which is a powerful story about a black family moving into a white neighborhood. The play was hugely successful as was the movie…
Bright Star
BRIGHT STAR (2009) is as beautiful and as moving as the real life romance between poet John Keats and his beloved muse Fanny Brawne which is the focus of the film. Jane Campion, director of “The Piano” wrote and directed this masterpiece of the heart with brilliant colors and exhilarating depths of emotions. She never…