Category: Creative Writing
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Musings & Thoughts for Friday, October 23, 2020: Tramping Through the Neighborhood & NaNoWriMo Anxiety Sets In
Hi, Dear Reader. It’s early evening on Friday, October 23, 2020 as I begin this post from my desk in New Hometown, Florida, and night will soon fall here. Currently, the temperature outside is 80˚F (27˚C) under partly sunny skies – sunset is about 27 minutes away; with humidity at 79% and the wind blowing…
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Musings & Thoughts for Wednesday, October 14, 2020: Just Marking Time in New Hometown, Florida, or ‘No hay novedad aqui….’
It is now late afternoon here in New Hometown, Florida, and outside my bedroom – it still feels so weird to call it that – the temperature is 88˚F (31˚C) under mostly sunny skies. With the wind blowing from the east at 8 MPH (13 KM/H) and humidity at 55%, the heat index is 92˚F…
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Odds & Ends: or, Even More Musings & Thoughts for Monday, October 5, 2020
Things I DIDN’T Do Today It’s now mid-afternoon here in what I call New Hometown in Florida, and it’s a hot and rainy Monday. Presently, the temperature outside is 88˚F under mostly cloudy skies. With humidity at 66% and the wind blowing from the east-northeast at 6 MPH (with maximum gusts of 10 MPH), the…
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Musings & Thoughts for Friday, October 2, 2020: A Note from My Fortress of Solitude
Hello, again, Dear Reader. It’s now late afternoon – I’m starting this, my 200th post on WordPress, shortly after 4 PM Eastern time – here in my little corner of Florida. It’s been a quiet, I would almost say tranquil, Friday, and it looks like the rest of the weekend will be more of the…
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I Write the Songs…Sorta. Or: Look, Ma, I Did a Parody!
So my friend Juan Carlos Hernandez, the actor-director-producer who gave me my first breaks as a bona fide screenwriter, texted me the other day to tell me about a project that he and his wife, actress-producer Adria K. Woomer-Hernandez, are currently working on. “We’re doing a musical comedy revue about the COVID-19 pandemic that we…
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Adventures in Screenwriting: Mom Would Have Been Proud
Mom Would Have Been Proud Way back in the late Seventies – circa early in 1978 – I told my mom, “You know what? Someday I’m gonna write a movie. I wanna write one, anyway.” I had just seen Star Wars during one of the three times that I watched it over its long run…
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My Adventures in Screenwriting: ‘A Simple Ad’
On May 2, 2019, New York City-based actor-director Juan Carlos Hernandez uploaded a short film titled A Simple Ad to the online video-sharing platform YouTube. Produced by his wife, actress-producer-editor Adria K. Woomer-Hernandez for their indie film company Popcorn Sky Productions, A Simple Ad is a brief but poignant story about loss, grief, and the…
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‘No hay novedad’: Life in the Time of COVID-19
Hi, there. Welcome to another edition of A Certain Point of View, Too, my new blog in WordPress. As I write this, it’s almost six o’clock on Thursday, April 9. Here in my corner of Florida, it’s 84 degrees Fahrenheit (29 degrees Celsius) under mostly sunny skies. It’s early spring, but here in the Deep…
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Fiction Break: Excerpt from ‘The Best Years of Our Lives…Supposedly’
In August 2018, a few weeks after I self-published Reunion: A Story via Amazon in paperback and Kindle e-book editions, I flirted with the notion of writing a sequel in which the main character (and narrator) of that story is confronting some of the challenges that many fifty-somethings face as they go through middle age…
