Why I Write.
Writing is chemistry. Change one element in the skeletal model and you’ll have a completely different molecule – and most likely a different reaction. Words work like that: the right ones, in just the right order, create the desired result, translating a thought, a feeling or an entire life's story.
Writing is a miracle, and what amazes me most, is the awe I feel when a story unfolds right under my fingertips. Characters coming to live, so vividly, sprouting from my imagination. Sometimes I forget I don’t actually know these people, and then I remember that, yes, I do. And then I wonder where they’ll take me next.
Writing is electricity. An energy, a force, a flow I can’t explain with words. It’s not a dream and it’s not reality. It’s new, and yet, it’s not. We think stories are born in our minds, but writing, when it’s good, comes from a place further than the heart. That realization, when I read back what appeared on paper, makes me feel alive.
Writing is emotional. Writing moves me, and putting stories to paper, I hope they can move another. Words, as a guide into our psyche and all that’s there to feel. Discovering what appalls, annoys, terrifies us. What touches, elates, intrigues us. Writing is exploring, traveling, learning, seeking, hoping. Persisting and pursuing, it’s a battle, a fight. A war, at times.
I write because it’s everything. All the good and all the bad. The struggle and the victory.
Needing it as much as breathing, to me, it’s life.
My Work.
Publications Creative Writing:
* "Gingerbread House" - Montclair Write Group Sampler
* "Toby" - Running Wild Press * "Inhale/Exhale” - Raining on Rooftops Review
* Honorable Mention - NYC Midnight Flash Fiction Challenge - "Life Is but A Walking Shadow" (Round 3 2018) * Honorable Mention - NYC Midnight Short Story Challenge - "Chicken Run" (Round 2 2018) .
* Finalist NYC Midnight Flash Fiction Challenge 2019
Screenplay:
* Amtrak 97 (2nd Place in NYC Midnight Short Screenplay Challenge, Round 1) * Keeper of the Gold (1st Place in NYC Midnight Short Screenplay Challenge, Round 2) * Porcelain Faces - Short Screenplay
* A Life So Precious - Short Screenplay (Best Short Script @ CISF / Gold Award @ ISA / semi-finalist @ BAFF / Official Selection @ ISF / Finalist @ Sidewalk Film Fest * Upon My Soul, A Wicked Lie - Feature Comedy
* Finalist NYC Midnight Screenplay Challenge 2019