For World Mental Health Day I collaborated with Digital Mindfulness to fill a gap on the confluence of mindfulness and games.

My approach was to research, gather footage of, and edit my top picks for Mindful Video Games.

This success led to a further Lockdown-centric collaboration.

I encourage myself to review every film I’ve seen since 2016 as a way to write every day, arrange my thoughts and analysis on story, characters and franchises, and as a way to connect with my filmmaker and filmlover friends.

I understand that my audience enjoys a quickly rendered first draft as an emotional or visceral first response, sometimes funny, sometimes brusque, always honest. I enjoy the discussions that have fallen out of this fire-and-forget approach.

I have found the immediacy and creative openness of poetry and lyrics a satisfying offset for the structure and mechanical thinking as part of screenplays and narrative design.

I use this blog as an occasional repository for writing that doesn't naturally fit in any other place and find the freer and more personal writing an exciting challenge.