©2021 by Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com Conversation With a Three Year-old (skit) An old man is fiddling with pieces of an old wooden chair in a backyard shop. His three year-old great grandson strolls up. KID Whatcha doin’ Great Grandpa? GG Someone put this old Adirondack Chair out for the trash man. I’m restoring it.… Read More Drama | Conversation With a Three Year-old (skit)
A Word of Thanks First of all, Thank you so much for your readership and comments on VernonMilesKerr.com. I will keep posting my own work, right here, but I have just created a new site which focuses exclusively on the art of writing in English. The name of this new site is Writers Class the… Read More The Art of Writing | Our New Sister-Blog
The movie Ghost in the Shell was entertaining but confusing to me. Perhaps it’s my age (early seventies) or perhaps I fall somewhere on the Autism Spectrum. There was way too much going on, sensory overload. It was hard to tell if the author meant to present a day-in-the-life in a dystopia or a utopia… Read More Flash Review | Ghost in the Shell
Fair comment (c) 2017 Vernon Miles Kerr This is a copy of the second of two recent Sacramento Bee columns by my friend and former college writing professor, Manfred Wolf. He and I are currently collaborating on a screen adaptation of his book “Survival in Paradise: Sketches from a Refugee Life in Curacao.” (http://www.survivalinparadise.com) My first draft of… Read More Rhetoric | A Holocaust Survivor’s Thoughts on America, Post-Trump
My film script Survival In Paradise, discussed in an earlier post, has now been entered in several screenwriting competitions and is in the reading queue of three or four producers who are mutual friends of either myself or Manfred Wolf, the author of the memoir from which this work is derived. See http://www.survivalinparadise.com Initial feedback from… Read More Drama | Survival In Paradise: The Screenplay
