What do you create? I think I create stories that inspire, intrigue, terrify, rivet, and ultimately uplift people. I write fiction and nonfiction, and to me, my goal is the same in both, which is all of the above. Why do you create? I create because of the reason I said above, I create to inspire people and help them believe that they can overcome the obstacles in their life. I say this because I’ve written about thirty novels and in everyone an ordinary man or woman is faced with an unusual situation, but one that could occur, and they have to overcome it, simply by dint … [Read more...]
Archives for April 2016
3Ws – Miranda Sajdak
What do you create? I create movies, mostly. And scripts for TV and movies. Pretty much anything to do with the film and TV industries, I've probably had a hand in creating at some point, ranging from reality TV to feature films. Anything that allows me to tell stories for the screen. Why do you create? Great question, but this one is a little harder to verbalize. It almost feels too easy to say "because I couldn't do anything else," but every time I've had that moment of "what if I did this other, easier job?" I'm somehow pulled back to entertainment. After a certain … [Read more...]
3Ws – James Comtois
What do you create? Plays, mostly. Or to be more specific, scripts — I usually need a lot of help getting the scripts turned into full productions of plays. From about 2000 until about 2013, I co-ran a theatre company in New York called Nosedive Productions with our mutual pal Pete Boisvert. Through Nosedive, we staged several of my plays, which was a great deal of fun. I’ve recently stepped away from producing so I can just be a playwright for a little while. That may change in the future, but for now, I really like just being the chef (rather than the chef, the server, the maître-d’ and … [Read more...]
3Ws – Julie Buxbaum
What do you create? Novels. My first two books (The Opposite of Love and After You) were what people in publishing call “contemporary women’s fiction” and my most recent book (Tell Me Three Things) which just came out (!!!), is considered “young adult,” though I like to think my books are for everyone. But really what I create are characters who I come to love and know over the year (or years depending on the book) that I spend writing them. And from there comes plot and then ultimately (hopefully) words and eventually I create a pile of pages that somehow (hopefully) turns into a novel … [Read more...]