Many years ago, I was fortunate to have been given a scholarship to The Breadloaf Writer
Monthly Archives: July 2012
Gimli Film Festival: Bloodflowers4
Flight 314
My adapting of short fiction to drama led to commissions to write original plays. Here was a new challenge.
Gimli Film Festival: Bloodflowers3
Life is filled with disappointments, near misses and, sometimes, lucky breaks.
The short story,
Gimli Film Festival: Bloodflowers2
Most film makers spend more time raising money than they do making films. Budget looms over their heads in development, pre-production, production and post-production. The less money they have to raise, the better chance of getting the film made. That
Gimli Film Festival: Bloodflowers
The Poet from Arnes: background notes
Poetry, like hymn singing, was okay in Iceland. Both came with the settlers. The poetry and hymn singing expanded to become secular but still was an important part of the daily life of the settlers. Even today, numerous books of poetry in Icelandic written by the first generation of immigrants still exist. Also, still existing, are anecdotes about the struggle between farming and writing. It has been said about more than one farmer that