Just hope nobody goes blind trying to read it all on that tiny little IPhone screen.
Eventually, it might get printed on paper and published, you know, the old school way, but at least for now, this is the only way to get it.
but soon, the IPad awaits, yes?
Enjoy and please do email me and tell me what you think.
My play, Lansky is now running in Tel Aviv in Yiddish.
And so, if you happen to be in Israel, please go by the theater and say hello Yacov Bodo, the spectacular actor in this one man show.
And remember, everything in Yiddish sounds better!
Holiday News:
A fun, wacky X-Mas play I wrote a few years ago
has been published by Original Works Publishing and they are doing a
big push right now to try to get it produced around the country during
the holiday season.
If you want to read it, please visit their website and check it out.
It's a series of 12 ribald monologues, one for each of the twelve characters in the famous 12 days of Christmas song... Lots of holiday fun...
Now, I want this site to be a good place to find out information about the art and craft of storytelling, but I also want it to be different than the other storytelling websites out there. And so I thought that a good way to do that might be by starting with these images below...
Now, I thought this photo would be the most popular, since it is cute and has a loving family scene of Momma and her new born chicks and even a few roses. But NOPE, nobody really noticed it...
So, I got a little artistic and decided to post this more dramatic shot.
Now, I thought, for sure, people would dig this one the most since its got a sense of action... But, still no big response. So, I concluded my story is still not as engaging as it has to be.
Voila, I added this picture... Now, this photo features the one and only Thomas the Cat who happened to waltz by and check out the chickadees. Please note, Thomas is a member of the actor's union, (he is Morris the Cat's body double) so I didn't expect him to show up since it was a non-union shoot, but he decided to grace us with his presence anyway. Thomas' stare adds a sense of tension to the photo that was not in the first two. The truth is I think the viewer creates an entire story around it -- a story that they write in their head... What do you think?
Thomas couldn't take the tension and decided to ATTACK! Fortunately for everyone, Momma is one mean girl when her chicks' are in jeopardy, so she readily dispatched him and a moment later, Thomas ran away in disgrace and the chicks were safe... Since this one is so dramatic, I thought for sure that it would be the most popular, but alas, it wasn't... Yep, you guessed it, the one before of Thomas waiting to pounce captured the imagination of my audience far and away more than all the others combined. So, I thought to myself, what does this say about story, tension and drama?
Just finished a new book that is now available to be downloaded on ITunes.
My play, Lansky is now running in Tel Aviv in Yiddish.
Holiday News: 
Now, I thought this photo would be the most popular, since it is cute and has a loving family scene of Momma and her new born chicks and even a few roses. But NOPE, nobody really noticed it...
Now, I thought, for sure, people would dig this one the most since its got a sense of action... But, still no big response. So, I concluded my story is still not as engaging as it has to be.
Voila, I added this picture... Now, this photo features the one and only Thomas the Cat who happened to waltz by and check out the chickadees. Please note, Thomas is a member of the actor's union, (he is Morris the Cat's body double) so I didn't expect him to show up since it was a non-union shoot, but he decided to grace us with his presence anyway. Thomas' stare adds a sense of tension to the photo that was not in the first two. The truth is I think the viewer creates an entire story around it -- a story that they write in their head... What do you think?
Thomas couldn't take the tension and decided to ATTACK! Fortunately for everyone, Momma is one mean girl when her chicks' are in jeopardy, so she readily dispatched him and a moment later, Thomas ran away in disgrace and the chicks were safe... Since this one is so dramatic, I thought for sure that it would be the most popular, but alas, it wasn't... Yep, you guessed it, the one before of Thomas waiting to pounce captured the imagination of my audience far and away more than all the others combined. So, I thought to myself, what does this say about story, tension and drama?