As the creator of Out of Time, I work across media. My novel is in its second draft now, drawn from the original screenplay. I started tweeting the story–line-by-line as is the most conventional practice in #TwitterFiction–until our heroine, Charley, took over the narrative. Her solution to tweet storytelling was to ask questions of the … Continue >
In the time travel adventure story Edge of Yesterday (originally, Out of Time), our heroine Charley plays violin–taught and encouraged by her professional violinist mom, Gwen. Charley and Gwen even compose what Charley calls a “sound poem” together–the song “Out of Time” that ends up connecting mother and daughter across centuries. Practicing the violin is … Continue >
We’re a world of One Percenters. As a society and world swimming in information, we reward people who are expert at the right things. And we all want to position our children to be in that One Percent. It’s what we stress about in raising our kids to succeed: if you haven’t chosen a sport … Continue >
I am not an artist. I always start my introductions with that fact firmly stated. A writer, yes, but I don’t draw, paint, sculpt or otherwise do representational art. My mother, Dorothy Stevens, is a widely recognized painter and sculptor with decades of pieces to show for it. She has studied and taught. Her paintings … Continue >