The Depression caused many farmers to lose their farms. At the same time, years of over-cultivation and drought created the “Dust Bowl” in the Midwest, destroying agricultural production in a previously fertile region. Thousands of these farmers and other unemployed workers migrated to California...
Too many questions here to tackle in one comment (or one post!) but no I don’t write character bios. I DO spend a lot of time thinking about my characters at every stage in the writing process though. But that doesn’t mean you should or shouldn’t do the same, just what I do....
looking at just the history of the labor movement and how many bad asses had to lose their lives so we could have the privilege of working as much as we did for as little as we got, and now fast forward to the compliant domesticated “consumers” of today and yeah… we’re all kin...
And we’ve been doing so simply because we’ve been swamped by so many low skilled EU unemployed. Prigger June 20, 2018 Sorry I posted the on yestrday’s blog comments instead of today’s. The continued anti-Trump rhetoric was permitted in PM Questions today and not put down by Mr ...
I mainly write poetry and essays, but want to try a screenplay. This would be an arthouse kind of film, so I am somewhat struggling with a log line, as there are so many layers to the story. But here goes… A middle-aged teacher who wants to write reflects on her ...