Tom Barclay

Two – the two short ‘Player’ stories, ‘Fantasia’ and ‘Kirchgessner’. I’ve been rethinking the two novels that started accreting over the last several years, wanting to apply the lessons learned and relearned here.
Honestly, I’m not working on this very hard: having great difficulties finding a new job after quite some time pounding the pavement.

I was an early reader. I admired the storytelling abilities of one of my father’s friends, and that (plus a lot of time at our town’s public library) gave me the idea I could be a storyteller, too.
But I quickly noticed no one much wanted to listen to me the way I listened to Herb.
That left . . . print.
I liked the Colby series on military…[Read more]

I suppose that’s true – old wine, new bottles, or the 1964 Falcon wrapped in new sheetmetal and renamed ‘Mustang.’ Fresh and exciting to people who weren’t there in theatres for The Big Screen Experience in 1977.

Don’t know if we ever talked about this – I started out as a kid writer, but detoured (ahh, pudness) into theatre. Eventually I stopped performing to be a producer of concerts, events and opera. In the middle, I was also worked in a SAG/AFTRA talent agency.

All of which goes to say I stand by my first comments ‘SW:TFA’, that the producers wanted…[Read more]

As Steve has remarked in several places, after you’ve gotten accustomed to THJ, no one wants to go the movies with you anymore (especially if you predict upcoming plot points and character development aloud).
In some cases, this solitude is enjoyable.
As far as ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ goes, I found it visually attractive but predictable…[Read more]

Certainly ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ follows the form.

The Australian tv series ‘Glitch’ seems to follow it for each character.

Good idea – that will streamline the process a whole lot.