UNPUBLISHEDNOTDEAD!

Lately I’ve been blogging a lot about being all dialogue and no story, and I’ve purposely left out why I dropped my screenwriting class, because it’s only half the reason I did (the rest is great). I’ve debated in my mind how that makes me who I am and what I’m about. I mean am I going to wake up one morning and realize that my life has been nothing but a string of conversations that I have all but forgotten, save the profound, and that’s it? Will I realize Read the rest of this entry »

I keep coming back to this topic, and I’m not sure why, but it’s probably because if you have nothing to write about then writing becomes a moot point. I have never believed that everything that spills out onto a page is sitting somewhere in my brain waiting to get out, in fact I believe the opposite is true. I actually think the stories I write about come from somewhere outside of me. They come from experience and events in my life that I somehow transfer to the page. I think what makes me a writer is Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve written a lot about how I don’t write about myself in stories. I had several reasons (excuses) for that, but the reason (excuse) I stated originally is that I had written about the origins, future, present of my navel to death, and I no longer wanted to deal with it. But then I started Read the rest of this entry »

I’m from Los Angeles. I wasn’t born there, but when I was three it became my home and my identity; what was associated with who I was. And if the world saw me at all, that is what they saw. I left ten years ago but I go there occasionally to visit my friends, and more often than not, I get on the plane back to Reno weary from a long weekend drinking and eating amazing sushi with Wayne on Friday, managing that hangover at Read the rest of this entry »

Podcast six will be online tuesday at the regular places … including here. By the way, if you want me to link to your site, let me know … all I ask is that you link back here. my email is Kael@unpublishednotdead.com

My good friend Bill (not just some guy I know, but a good friend) is being deployed to Afghanistan soon, if you believe in prayer, please pray for his safe return. If you don’t believe in that, please think good thoughts … I have very few good friends because the criteria is so high.

You know I have to be honest; I have no confidence in either presidential candidate to do anything about anything. I know you’re all out there with your Obama shirts, chanting his name in unison (which sounds an awful like the word “change,”) while an almost equal amount of you are out there chanting McCain’s name as if he were your choice for president Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve mentioned this before on this blog and podcast (number six is in the works by the way … I’m recording it this weekend), but in case you’ve missed it, I’m dyslexic. I actually have a pretty bad case of it, and during college (and high school), I had a really hard time keeping up with all the reading I had to do. I came up with a ton of tricks to fake my way through it, and eventually I got so good at it, I wasn’t even reading any of my assigned reading. Mostly I would listen Read the rest of this entry »

I’m taking a screenwriting class as it has been suggested by many would be a great idea … being that I’m kind of running out of posts (I’m not really :)), look forward to some move news!