Whether you're an enduring Top Gun fan, a Batman aficionado, or one of the lucky ones who discovered Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, if you live in Boston you should know about Val Kilmer's upcoming "Writer/Performer/Producer Talk" next month. Actor and filmmaker Val Kilmer will discuss his current film project, bringing the lives of Mary Baker Eddy and Mark Twain to the screen, at The Mary Baker Eddy Library on February 11, at 7 p.m. He will be joined by Mike Davis, library researcher, and Chet Manchester, who has also written a screenplay on Eddy. For those of us without a background in early twentieth-century history, Twain and Eddy were two intellectual heavyweights of their time poised on opposite sides of a culture rapidly redefining itself. Twain,
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Being able to write, as in articles, poetry, short stories or even full length novels is a talent. It falls right in there with painting beautiful pictures, or playing and composing music. It all starts with the talent and passion to make a career of it. I haven't been a professional writer for very long, but I could always write and I loved to do it. Many of you will know what I mean by this. The talent and desire has to be there to be able to make a career of something, no matter what you choose. To be a singing sensation, you have to be able to sing. To be a ballerina, you have to be able to dance. I excelled in English all through school. I loved writing the book reports, the essays and the assigned poetry. I even used to write short stories in a 3 ring binder that my friends would pass around in study hall. My English teacher was so impressed with my work that she used them as examples. That was so embarrassing to a teenaged girl striving to be cool! She did encourage me though and told me she would one day see my name in print. It dawned on me that I did want to be an author. I wanted to write great fiction novels just like Victoria Holt, who was my favorite author at the time. I met this wonderful guy, fell in love and got married. All I wanted then was to raise a family, so the writing stopped, accept for the occasional poem written to a family member. Two very active little boys take up a lot of time, and I was content just being a Mom, and working on school projects with them. After my boys got older, I did take a few college courses in writing. I found the old writing bug coming back with a vengeance. Again, I was making A's on my papers and the teacher was encouraging me to keep writing. So, I queried a few local newspapers. I started by covering local village board meetings. Not exciting by any means, but I was now a paid writer. The editors at the papers apparently liked
Being able to write, as in articles, poetry, short stories or even full length novels is a talent. It falls right in there with painting beautiful pictures, or playing and composing music. It all starts with the talent and passion to make a career of it. I haven't been a professional writer for very long, but I could always write and I loved to do it. Many of you will know what I mean by this. The talent and desire has to be there to be able to make a career of something, no matter what you choose. To be a singing sensation, you have to be able to sing. To be a ballerina, you have to be able to dance. I excelled in English all through school. I loved writing the book reports, the essays and the assigned poetry. I even used to write short stories in a 3 ring binder that my friends would pass around in study hall. My English teacher was so impressed with my work that she used them as examples. That was so embarrassing to a teenaged girl striving to be cool! She did encourage me though and told me she would one day see my name in print. It dawned on me that I did want to be an author. I wanted to write great fiction novels just like Victoria Holt, who was my favorite author at the time. I met this wonderful guy, fell in love and got married. All I wanted then was to raise a family, so the writing stopped, accept for the occasional poem written to a family member. Two very active little boys take up a lot of time, and I was content just being a Mom, and working on school projects with them. After my boys got older, I did take a few college courses in writing. I found the old writing bug coming back with a vengeance. Again, I was making A's on my papers and the teacher was encouraging me to keep writing. So, I queried a few local newspapers. I started by covering local village board meetings. Not exciting by any means, but I was now a paid writer. The editors at the papers apparently liked