ORGANIC STORY-TELLING [How I write a novel]
WRTING NOVELS I’ve decided to write a novel! But how do you do that? Frequent Advice To write a great story, writers are often told to write about what they know. Sometimes they are advised to write out, ahead of time, everything that is going to happen in the story. So, you have to know what’s going […]
Hitchcock’s Predecessors
WOW! I love it when I stumble upon something old when I thought I was looking for something new–especially when it comes to the movies. Then the old becomes new at least to me. Film: Fun to wander around the web on a Sunday afternoon. Why not drop in to visit me on my website and […]
Pianist Henri Dumont
In The Luxembourg Gardens Café In the novel, Night Crossing, the third in The Trilogy of Remembrance. Alexander Wainwright is in search of a pianist in Paris. He hopes that he will lead him to the painter with whom he may have shared a vision. Despite his searches on the internet, he has come up with […]
Meet Dr. Bollen of St. Maxime
Have you ever toured the south of France? Would you like to visit with a visionary artist, Alexander Wainwright? After meeting Clea by chance that night in Paris, he is on his way to St. Maxime to visit his patron Jonathan Pryde, who has retained him to create stained glass windows for his residence in Vence in […]
A Visionary Artist Arrives in Paris
Have you ever been to Paris? What would it be like to travel there with a visionary artist? What would you see, sense and feel in such an experience? Travel with Alexander Wainwright in search of his muse and The Fate of Pryde. Alexander Wainwright has been retained by the famous philanthropist, Jonathan Pryde, […]