After our last post on introducing a single character, someone asked: “Okay, but what if I’m introducing six characters at once?” That’s...

There’s something magical about the first moment we meet a character on screen. Maybe it’s the flicker of movement in the corner of the...

Picture this : you settle onto a barstool, your open notebook poised for inspiration, and raise a glass of mezcal that smells of charred...

While getting my weekly massage, I was wrestling Act Two plot points in my mind while my masseuse's elbows were working on every knot in...

At the risk of sounding tedious, San Miguel de Allende has again been awarded the Number One City in the World. The top cities in the...

San Miguel de Allende is one of those rare places that feels both timeless and vibrantly alive. I first visited in 1999, and made it my...

We’ve been roaming San Miguel since 1999, and over the past 26 years the city’s steak game has gone from modest to magnificent. Here,...

Writing a screenplay demands precision, passion and that elusive spark of magic. You will find all three at San Miguel de Allende’s most...

Some days, I roam with purpose. Other days, I drift, following my intuition, wondering what new thing I'm going to discover. Either way,...

Set a timer for eleven minutes, 11 seconds. That’s it. Magical 11:11 to go full feral on your imagination. Write down as many What if ?...

Why your next creative breakthrough might be laughably small. I’ve been rewriting a script I began eons ago, originally titled Meet My...

I’ve loved the Coen Brothers ever since Blood Simple  knocked my socks off in 1984. Hard to believe that was 41 years ago. Some of my...

Oops! Been a tad remiss in updating this blog because we've been busy writing, and, yes, walking, and sometimes talking out loud. I'm on...

A Creative Boost From San Miguel to Your Screen You’re staring at your screen. The next scene is supposed to be two characters walking...

You know what the scene needs to do. The structure is solid. The tension is right there, waiting. But the dialogue? Flat. Mechanical. A...

San Miguel de Allende isn’t just a town—it’s a setting, a scene, a slow unfolding of story in every lavender dusk and sun-warmed wall. If...

You’re halfway through Act Two, and the story stalls. Your characters stop talking. Your structure sags. You feel like you’ve outsmarted...

Writing a screenplay takes precision, passion, and a little bit of magic—the same ingredients that make San Miguel de Allende the premier...

If you’ve read Wandering Words: How Roaming San Miguel Unlocks Creativity , you already know we believe in the magic of movement. That...

We’ve all been there. The blinking cursor. The empty page. That creeping dread that maybe you’ve forgotten how to write entirely....