(Click the title to read the item I refer to, New Readers). While always wary of attempts to quantify creativity, or perpetuate the myth that there is any given way to be a better writer…  this item caught my eye because I hand-write everything exploratory.  From tag-lines to character descriptions to beating scenes and sequences and mapping structure and plots, it gets worked over with a favourite brand of pen in a moleskine, or on a sticky note, index card or anything that affixes itself to a surface I can step back and stare at, first.  Even my project diaries are lists.  The exception is dialogue.  My characters tend to talk fast and tell me more if I free-type, and then though - I print and edit them - for timing & voice - by hand.

Many apply (sometimes repeatedly) - few are chosen.  As our national population’s swelling under-30 demo become increasingly convinced content creation is the career for them, lab sizes get smaller and the costs of living in Canada’s largest city grow.  And so do the number of applications to a school that educates many on the value of peer-based education.  If your personal pitch package hits the offices of the North York former horse-racing tycoon’s estate today, I (an alum and sometime mentor at the CFC) wish you every bit of luck - the bank account & emotional support to foster more of it - and the first glimmerings of improved prospects:  an interview.