Taming The Elephant: The Inner Critic’s No-Win Loop When Selecting Creative Task

... and not before long, the same voice returns with a different complaint: "You’re not moving fast enough."

The Threshold State: When Too Many Creative Projects Cancel Each Other Out

Four questions for getting through the strange doorway between thinking and doing. “I’m working on six projects,” I used to say early in my career. Like it was a sign that I was highly active. I’m the same today—a wagon being pulled in different directions by too

The Scene That Starts The Film Process & Writing For Actors

In my case, there is usually one scene that starts the process of making a film. I may not know the film yet. I may not know the ending. I may not know if the idea is strong enough to survive all the practical humiliations of making a film. But

A Few Thoughts After Finishing a Feature Film

A couple of weeks ago, I finished shooting a feature film. Months of preparation, schedules, rewrites, weather forecasts, batteries charging, lens choices, emotional pressure, compromises, accidents, and tiny miracles.

The Creative Case for Doing Absolutely Nothing

Some ideas belong in an unfinished state. Crooked. Half-formed. Still breathing.

Final Cut Pro X and the Shape of Thought

I Didn’t Switch to Final Cut Pro X -- I drifted into it.

THE STRANGE FOCUS TRICK

Why looking away from the screen helps you work longer

Stopping Is the Work

For me, writing is never just about producing words. It is a custom job each day, sometimes each hour, where the real task is figuring out how to interrupt momentum long enough for that something to appear.

Creative Overwhelm: “I would like to be able to do the stuff I need to do.”

Clean Language: A beautiful, symbolic system at work.

The Freedom of Restriction

"A word limit, a location limit, a time limit, a stylistic rule, a format."

10-Second Film - New Challenge - Full Free Access

This is a community filmmaking challenge where anyone can create and share a 10-second short film. There are no judges, no competition, and no single winner.

A Dress That Broke My Heart

A short tale of my daughter's magic.