A Writing Pilgrimage
Screenwriting
Pitch Decks & BLOG
I hope you enjoy the pitch decks for my laurel-winning, romantic dramedy, feature film screenplays below. All have earned “Recommend” status through coverage. They will give you an idea of my range as a screenwriter, story editor, and writing coach. (If you’re using mobile view, please turn your phone sideways to view them.)
Writer. Screenwriter.
I’m a serious, prolific screenwriter with six feature film screenplays and a short ready for production.
I’ve honed my craft through studies at UVic, Camosun College, community workshops, and self-educating. I’m a member of CineVic, VIWFT, and BCFW. I value the power of notes and revisions and take coverage seriously.
Before screenwriting, I won three mentorships, two for fiction, and one for poetry. I published “slice of life” creative non-fiction, including a story in Canadian Living, and a ghost story, “The Banshee of Cholera Bay,” in the Canadian anthology “Open Space: Canadian Fantastic Fiction.” It’s a contemporary Canadian love story with an Irish ghost that haunts the quarantine station in Grosse Isle, Quebec. I’ve recently adapted it into the screenplay “Goodbye For Now.”
While I’ll be polishing my scripts here and there, I’ve decided to explore the “waywardness” behind my writing, including solo travel, the occasional accompanied trips— and what I was running to and away from. I’ve visited seventeen countries, double that if you count return trips.
In the meantime, I hope this website, blog, quotes, and writing prompts help inspire your pilgrimage of the pen.
“It all begins with the seed of an idea and then you water it with ink.” —Wayward
Where do my ideas come from? You’ll find the answers in the bones of my blog. But for starters…
Sometimes, I excavate broken dreams and mine the highs and lows of my personal history. Sometimes, they come from noticing the random acts of kindness or grace along the way and wanting to honor them. My best ideas have often been cracked open by travel and turned into screenplays: the people who’ve crossed my path, the sights, both planned and unexpected, some that I only captured when I put my camera down. The culture shock, be it from politics, poverty, or how children are treated. My blog is about how ideas grew into screenplays and other writing genres, and about living “the writer’s life” including the roadblocks and detours.
Where do you get your best ideas? Do you dig for them like a paleontologist or go all out with an excavator?
When in doubt, borrow some inspiration. There is so much out there!
My Heart Art
Creating images to inspire those thousand words - give or take a few hundred.
