A Big Hole

I've just set up this blog and have to try it out, regardless of the mechanical diggers outside my international office window (okay its a 10 x 10 wooden shed) set deep in a valley in Cornwall England. The diggers have dug this gigantic hole where the tiny extension to our tiny cottage will be built. They say it will take 8 months. We'll see.

Meanwhile, it's school break. My daughter just turned 13. She's in Penzance (as in Pirates of) getting her ear pierced. A girl's gotta do what she's gotta do. I'm taking a few hours to catch up on work.

I've got scratch narration to edit into my documentary THE SACRED SITES OF THE DALAI LAMAS: A Tibetan Pilgrimage. I've got a new schedule to do for THE SEEN AND THE UNSEEN, a feature film set in Bali, which I've been working on for years and is finally gaining some heat.

Then there's our publishing company which publishes America's leading film books (at least we think so) with such titles as The Writer's Journey, Shot by Shot and the new SAVE THE CAT (which just hit #3 yesterday on Amazon's best selling "screenwriting books".

People ask me how I am able to get all this done and the secret is really simple. I work on a lot of things just a little bit each day - until the creative juices stop. And then, before you know it, the projects come into fruition.

But enough, today, we'll see if this thing works and anyone responds.

Cheers for now,

Michael