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David Belisle

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With my birth country America awash in authoritarianism, I can only watch. And write. Numbskull Novellas is my new series where I skewer the insufferable skallywags beholden to Craven Bane Crumb. "DAMN BLONDIE -- Confessions of a United States Attorney General" is the first installment. There's plenty more to come. I hang out my shingle in Calgary, where I live with my wife and our chihuahua princess, Maybelline. ...more

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David Belisle Nope. I was sitting there in the summer of 2017, about 160 days into Trump's presidency and by then I couldn't concentrate on my other writing because…moreNope. I was sitting there in the summer of 2017, about 160 days into Trump's presidency and by then I couldn't concentrate on my other writing because I was so busy pulling my hair out at The Orange One's shenanigans. So I asked myself why not roll with it and have fun with it? I decided to satirize the daily news from the capitol. The idea of using dinosaurs came pretty quickly. I then settled into a routine of cranking out a column every Monday and Friday -- I'm closing in on 300 columns. For the past year I've been reading them in my Saturday podcast and for the past 6 months, been building a song into each column, rewriting the lyrics and then singing it in the podcast with the music bed. Yes, I'm having w-a-a-y too much fun! Thanks for the question, Henry. My site at davidmbelisle.com will steer you to the podcast on podbean: The T-Rump Dig podcast. Thanks again.(less)
David Belisle A detailed outline kills writer's block dead. And it's not really writer's block when I'm creating the outline. It's simply whacking the idea tree aga…moreA detailed outline kills writer's block dead. And it's not really writer's block when I'm creating the outline. It's simply whacking the idea tree again and again, waiting for the right idea to fall.

It's your story. You know the ending and how to get there. Plotting wouldn't be so difficult if it wasn't so rewarding. Research is vital.

Create the characters you need and stay true to them. Give them a setting, sit back and watch them react. The scene will write itself. The key is to get all those ideas -- good and bad -- down on the screen, because that's where your story will grow from. Writing is revising.

I must have considered 18 ways to tackle "Bushwhacked!" before I decided to focus on 1876 and weave my story through that year's historical events in Forrest Gump manner.(less)
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Bushwhacked!

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Full Moon

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Chastity's Belt

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I Was Justin's Nanny

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Forever We Play

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This Day in Misery

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