Old Testaments
“When I agreed to testify against that man, I did it because Isaiah wanted me to. Because I needed to. Because a little distance lulls you into a false sense of security. Because the silent empty well I’d been falling down for years finally allowed me to scream.”
Frig It! Screenplay for a not-yet-produced short film
Irma swings the flashlight toward the gap where the door and window used to be.
Caribbean Celluloid: Telling Our Stories on Film
“One Love. That’s right, this session is about film – not just that film though, but Caribbean film more broadly and specifically ones I’ve seen this half year. Twice in the case of Bob Marley: One Love.”
Don’t sleep on Caribbean Fantasy and Science Fiction
I’m partial to humans doing human things.
Object Permanence
On the page, as in life, people (characters) have things that mean something to them; that come to symbolize things in the greater context of the story. For me, the key is not to force it (what a character’s thing is) but to discover it over the course of revisions.