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Don Bredes
Thanks, Kent, good to hear of your interest. "Hard Feelings" was bought for distribution by 20th Century-Fox in 1982, I think, but never released in the US. In 1989, however, it was released under another title, "Hang Tough," and was available on VHS from Monarch Home Video. It's a pretty bad movie, I'm afraid. (I was owed some $50K upon release, which of course I never did receive. This kind of thing happens often in the industry.) Finding the video would be difficult, I'm sure. My daughter tracked it down and found a copy for me online about ten years ago for a few bucks. I probably should have bought a couple of them.
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Don Bredes
Writer's block is sometimes, for some writers, a troubling obstacle. Writing fiction is often difficult for a variety of artistic and personal reasons. A they say, the page is always blank. If a writer is devoted, however, he will try hard to stick to an fixed schedule, even when the words are not coming easily or at all. When it's not going well, the idea is just keep to your desk. Don't permit yourself to stray from your routine. Copy somebody else's writing if that's all you can do. But write.
Don Bredes
I am halfway through the first draft of the fourth novel in my Hector Bellevance literary suspense series, called "The Bigfoot Hunter." (After "Cold Comfort" (2001), "The Fifth Season" (2005), and "The Errand Boy" (2009). And I'm accumulating notes for the sequel to my most recent novel, out this fall with Green Writers Press, "Polly and the One and Only World."
Don Bredes
Read everything and read A LOT. Anyone who wants to write entertaining prose must become familiar with all of the possibilities for colorful, accurate, engaging expression and with all the many styles of narrative approach and plot construction.
Don Bredes
Ever since I was a child I've been fascinated by fantasy--by magic and arduous adventure. I read all of the Oz books and many others that my sisters and i inherited from by mother's childhood collection. When my own child began reading Philip Pullman and Garth Nix, I felt moved to write one of my own.
“Polly and the One and Only World” is a darker tale than any in my mother’s library. But Polly Lightfoot is a heroine for our time, one who reflects two somber human obligations we recognize today--to preserve the threatened, nurturing world around us and to protect ourselves and one another from all forms of tyranny. And that’s Polly’s mission beyond the fiction, to encourage young readers to uphold their just ideals with resolve, compassion, and dignity.
“Polly and the One and Only World” is a darker tale than any in my mother’s library. But Polly Lightfoot is a heroine for our time, one who reflects two somber human obligations we recognize today--to preserve the threatened, nurturing world around us and to protect ourselves and one another from all forms of tyranny. And that’s Polly’s mission beyond the fiction, to encourage young readers to uphold their just ideals with resolve, compassion, and dignity.
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