Minimum Effective Dosing
Watched an interview with David Foster Wallace, in which he went to great lengths to impress on the interviewer, I’m Smart! I’m Smarter ...
Author: normgreenwriter
Self isolating is my middle name
For me, there is one benefit to all this staying at home: I am getting a lot of work done. I have gone back to writing my first draft longhand, on l...
Shadow of a Thief Review
If you told me about a mystery story containing a supernatural element which is essentially syncretistic, and in which the main character is po...
Joker
I love movies. Some of them, anyhow. My wife and I have an ongoing joke: she likes movies with lots of dialogue and I like movies with gratuitous nu...
Hard Times and Gold Mines
I have been having trouble writing much of anything lately. Actually, this post will be the first time I’ve written anything more complex than...
The joy of metrics
My first time on skis was back in the mid seventies. This guy who owned a ski shop in my neighborhood in Brooklyn used to run a charter up to Hunter...
Recovery, by Russell Brand
I’ve been reading ‘Recovery,’ by the comedian Russell Brand. If you’ve ever seen his stand-up act, you already have a feel f...
Starting over
Being a writer is a strange affliction, sometimes. At the moment, it’s like having a girlfriend who never remembers my name. The reason for th...
First drafts
For me, there really is no such thing as a first draft any more. I think the concept of a first draft is a leftover from the bad old days, wh...
Picasso
In 1956, French film director Henri-Georges Clouzot (no relation) filmed Picasso at work. The resulting documentary is called ‘The Myst...