adaptation
October 14, 2009
- Kafka comes to the small panels in this rendition of The Metamorphosis by R. Sikoryak . I gotta say, it's well done. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112510733
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August 20, 2009
- Nature is always a great example for us, our world as model. I wonder why we forget to look outside every day and just see how to live. It's pretty damn simple. Find yourself alive and try to stay that way until it ends. Do what you can to support that life. Avoid predators, find nutrients, and adapt to the environment. The anxiety and stress and pressure we all feel comes, I think, ...
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July 21, 2009
- Lots to read, as ever! There's a new blog post up on the Short Review blog as part of Dzanc Books' 2009 Best of the Web anthology launch that I highly recommend you pop over and read. It's a guest post by M. Thomas Gammarino, one of the authors picked for BoTW, talking about his story, The Fridge. It's here.Another source of lit: the latest copy of Irish lit mag The Stinging Fly landed in my ...
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April 5, 2009
- I have now posted 26 of the intended 104 comic strips on my website 3rd Blade. As I mentioned in a previous post, I had planned to post twice weekly for a whole year, hoping to keep creative, get into a good habit, and most importantly, get some good ideas out there. When I started posting, I had 26 strips ready to go; breathing space should I need it. And I did need it. Rather than working every ...
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April 2, 2009
- You ever done one of those SUDOKU number puzzles? You know, put the numbers 1 through 9 in their own little box without doubling any numbers? That's what I feel I'm doing at the moment. I'm going through the novel and creating a spreadsheet to keep the chronology in its little box. Once my SUDOKU-style spreadsheet is done, then I'm moving back to my movie script. Since Superzero is a superhero ...
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March 13, 2009
- Kafka Comes To Bethlehem PNN / Osama Awad - This play is an adaptation of Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphosis", as Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. He struggles to keep his relationship with his family despite his transformation and preserve his human side. The play explores the conflict between ...
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December 2, 2008
- Well, I asked the universe last night for some guidance as to what my direction should be now... and I got a swift and positive response three hours later: my play, Exchange Rates, which I adapted from my story of the same name, (and is included in The White Road and Other Stories), has been shortlisted for the Total Beast 6-Minute Theatre competition and will be performed, along with the other ...
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November 9, 2008
- This week I showed my students Adaptation, written by Charlie Kaufman and directed by Spike Jonze, a free-wheeling adaptation of Susan Orlean's nonfiction book The Orchid Thief. The metafictive film is as much about writing as it is about orchids, maybe even more so, and it occurred to me as I was watching it for the umpteenth time that most viewers would not identify with the agony the ...
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July 30, 2008
July 25, 2008
- I'm innocently going along, adapting my novel to a movie script, well past the half way point (of the movie, at any rate) when a character, who never did such a thing in the novel, speaks to another character. Even taps him on the shoulder.In the novel there is a guessing game. Does the second character actually see the first, or is he a figment of the imagination? A memory returning to haunt? ...
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