I’m so excited to announce that my NEW COLUMN with the Christian Fiction Online Magazine is up!  It’s called From the Big Screen to Your Scene, and takes popular movies and teaches writing techniques from it….

 Here’s a sample from this month’s issue….

 Can you hear it?

August Rush Asks a Question

Listen, can you hear it? The music.

I can hear it everywhere.

In the wind;

In the air;

In the light;

It’s all around us.

All you have to do is open yourself up;

All you have to do is listen.

These are the opening lines of last fall’s delightful movie, August Rush, delivered in the haunting, delicate voice of amazing young actor Freddie Highmore. The story opens with young Evan, a so-called orphan, leading a symphony made up of tall grasses in some lush field in upstate New York.  

If you haven’t seen August Rush, rush out (pun intended!) and get it today because the soundtrack is soul filling. The pure delight in Evan/August’s eyes as he creates music resonates in the soul of any writer who loves to try on words for size, move sentences around, watch a character take life. Or for that matter, anyone who writes, or runs, or sings or even cooks, just because they must.  

You’ll also learn something about the use of story question woven clearly, if not overtly, through every character, every scene in the movie.

 To read the rest ~

Thanks for reading!