In this latest from Benn Farrell, Freelance, I describe and review how to create a cut sheet for your creative writing project. A cut sheet is a matrix on paper of the specifics and features of your upcoming project. Learn how now!
In this premier episode from Benn Farrell, Freelance, I talk about writing at a young age and not discouraging young writers despite not having developed their skills just yet.
Starting 10 a.m. MST, March 19, the blog for Benn Farrell, Freelance will be re-envisioned and launched as a VLOG from my Youtube.com channel. The link is https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRrGFhiTooxkK_KYkIoQMlQ/videos.
Many of the topics you have seen in my website blog you will see updated and revamped in the vlog as well, but in addition, I will be including episodes in the vlog regarding journalism, working as a freelance writer and having special guests on the vlog show to speak about their own successes and writing endeavors.
I have been silent from this blog for quite some time, but that is because my client base has grown and I have focused on their needs above my own, as usual. In addition, I have been focusing on a new play I’ve been developing and another which was slated for production with a regional theater on the east coast until recent.
So as my journey to help other writers move forward on their projects and avoid writer’s block continues, it will continue as a YouTube.com channel. I encourage you to subscribe at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRrGFhiTooxkK_KYkIoQMlQ/videos to keep up on the variety of writing guidance I have provided clients and visitors over the past few years.
And of course, COVID stopped everything in the world, which also but a curse ball in my plans and the plans I’ve had for Benn Farrell, Freelance. But now, I am off and running on the new visual adventure and I hope to hear from many if not all of you with suggestions of what you would like to see from my YouTube.com channel.
Thank you for following me and my journey as a writer. I am very excited for the next chapter of where Benn Farrell, Freelance is going, and I hope you tell yourself “I’m going to go where Benn goes.” I promise you, you won’t be disappointed.
There were two people in my performing arts education whom I consider mentors and friends. One is Michael D. Stansbery who was the chair of the performing arts department at the time I was going to college. The other was Tony Babin who had a most unique way of looking at theatrical production. He was extremely creative and constantly thought outside the box. The years I lived in Colorado Springs and was involved in theatre, he was a great friend, confidant and always encouraging whatever I was working on creatively as well. If you wanted know know how to produce a big show in a professional-budget approach, Stansbery was your man. If you wanted to know how to produce a show in the back of a small book store with no money, Babin was the guy.
This year marks the 10th anniversary of Tony Babin’s passing which affected many of us. A mutual friend posted this story from the Colorado Springs Gazette announcing his memorial and remembering the upstart thespian. So I am reposting it here. We lost my best friend Scott Bechberger, who also knew and worked with Babin on several productions, about a year prior to Babin passing away. That was a tough year for that era of theatre in Colorado Springs, in my opinion. But my memories of both of them keep a fire burning inside me even 10 years later.
My latest stageplay titled Hook and Ladder is now available online. I’m terribly excited for this play since it combines my passion for journalism as well as my fanship for football. It also gives me the chance to voice my opinion on a controversial issue and bring awareness to other concerns which may not be generally known by most people (trying not to give spoilers).
Order a copy online and let me know what you think. Add to the conversation. Like, share, whatever! I appreciate everyone’s support as always.
About Hook and Ladder:
Hot shot sports writer Dunkin Scott’s career is on the rise as the top reporter at Sports Review Monthly magazine. His readership is at an all-time high and is a frequent guest on major sports radio and television networks.
As if things couldn’t be going better for him, Dunkin is about to get the opportunity of a lifetime when he is assigned to an exclusive interview with future Hall of Fame football linebacker Tony Backlund, the writer’s childhood sports hero.
However, Dunkin soon finds himself pressured by his publisher Rachel Montgomery to spotlight the gridiron great and humanitarian as a fraud because Backlund had taken a knee during the U.S. national anthem at a playoff game six months prior. Quickly, Dunkin finds himself struggling to write what is fair and truthful to his sports hero after he begins to find a disconnect of facts involving Backlund’s abrupt and mysterious retirement as well as his on-field protest.
The play culminates into a mess of journalistic malpractice, unworthy ideology and Dunkin caught at a cross roads to decide what kind of journalist, sports fan and person he wants to be.
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