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November 13, 2015

Career Coaching Backstory #10: 2012 – A Welcome Fresh Start

2012 began with life in a new, beautiful apartment, two teaching gigs, two online writing gigs and two book pursuits. Two seemed like the magical number. […]
November 12, 2015

Career Coaching Backstory #9: 2011 – Time to Pivot

2011 kicked off on a gain and finished on a loss. That’s the nature of life. And that was the cycle of that year.   The […]
November 11, 2015

Career Coaching Backstory #8: 2010 – A New Professional Chapter

By the time 2010 rolled around, I’d just begun writing for two publications, one for pay and one for free movie passes. Tri-C started giving me […]
November 10, 2015

Career Coaching Backstory #7: Renavigating During the Chaos of 2009

2009 proved to be an interesting year. Interesting is such a broad adjective. Something people use when they don’t exactly know what else to say. Or […]
November 9, 2015

Career Coaching Backstory #6: The Big 2008 Crash

“I’m the Bad Guy?…How’d that happen? I did everything they told me to.” – Bill Foster, Falling Down, 1993 2008 began as a terrific year. Just […]


January 15, 2012
Cleveland

Cleveland, The Treatment. Chapter 1: Welcome to Cleveland

  Nearly five years ago I set out with the ambitious goal of writing my first script. Since then, it’s been rewritten, edited, re-edited, read by […]
December 30, 2010

Screenwriting Take 1: Find Your Road Map

 Written by Alex Sukhoy for Film Slate Magazine. “You must not come lightly on the blank page.” – Stephen King Writers write. Every day they look […]
March 4, 2009

Cleveland Rising: The Song, The Video and the Screenplay

“Cleveland Rising” music video. Since the initial inspiration and conception, going back to 2007, “Cleveland Rising” the song & video, and Cleveland, the screenplay, are now […]