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Fraser C. Heston
I've never had writers block... Um... Ah... Er...
Until now! Damn it!
No, just kidding. I just work through it. See Ray Bradbury's Rule #1 above.
The worst it could be is garbage. If you get stuck on a scene, skip ahead. Write the truest sentence that you know, as Hemingway said, and begin with that. One true sentence might be a good day's work.
Until now! Damn it!
No, just kidding. I just work through it. See Ray Bradbury's Rule #1 above.
The worst it could be is garbage. If you get stuck on a scene, skip ahead. Write the truest sentence that you know, as Hemingway said, and begin with that. One true sentence might be a good day's work.
Fraser C. Heston
Getting to tell great stories, if you've got one to tell, and having the pleasure of people listening, or reading, or watching your work - and enjoying it. the most important thing a writer (or film-maker) needs is a great story to tell, and a burning desire to tell it.
Fraser C. Heston
Ernest Hemingway said "writing is easy. You just stare at the typewriter until blood comes out of your forehead."
But I think Ray Bradbury said it best:
Do the following things, in any order:
1. Work
2. Don't think.
3. Relax
4. Love.
the most important of these is work. Work hard at writing. Every day. It's a job. But it's a wonderful job which will pay rewards far richer than any salary or financial remuneration.
But I think Ray Bradbury said it best:
Do the following things, in any order:
1. Work
2. Don't think.
3. Relax
4. Love.
the most important of these is work. Work hard at writing. Every day. It's a job. But it's a wonderful job which will pay rewards far richer than any salary or financial remuneration.
Fraser C. Heston
My writing partner Heather MacAdams, and I are working on the nest installment in the Jack Harris series - tentatively titled Highway of Tears - about the missing girls disappearing in northern British Columbia.
Fraser C. Heston
As a screenwriter for the last forty years, I am always looking for good stories to tell. If I enjoy telling a story to my friends over dinner or to my fishing pals around a campfire, I think it will probably make a good film or novel. In this case, I think the unsolved mystery of the severed feet is too good to ignore! It just kind of ran off with me (no pun intended!).
Fraser C. Heston
While our story is fictional, the mystery of the severed feet is real. Since 2007, 15 severed human feet have washed up on the shores of British Columbia and Washington State. RCMP, one of the best law enforcement organizations in the world, resolutely claims, despite a glaring lack of evidence, that these feet are the result of random suicides, and "there is no sign of foul play". But as a well know forensic researcher stated, "Two feet is an anomaly, three to four feet is statistically curious, five to six feet, you have to think dirty." But fifteen feet? Seriously?
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