SAY good-bye to those Norse Hell Polar Vortex days and hello to…well…our new hot-as-hell summer. It’ll soon to be hot enough to: – fry an egg on the hood of a car; – burn a lizard’s feet; – happily take a dust bath on the savannah; – make trees run for shade; – make you feel like you’re forever blushing; – not feel your fingertips burn when you pick up a copy of THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor. Hot, hot, hot! And no end in sight!


Almost as hot as my first screen kiss! Yes, last weekend, playing character Will Gardner with lead actress Jerri Lynne End in the “bedroom scene” of The STATIC Movie (https://kspllc.media/the-static-movie), I tried my first one — with lots of coaching. It’s quite unnatural given a tightly interposing camera with it’s own visual perspective. Did you know there are actually six or nine-week courses on how to kiss on screen? I didn’t until now. When authoring, it’s all about word choice, but when acting, it’s a very complex combination of lines, breaths, facial actions, emotions, feelings, imagination and, of course, what in the end looks best (and most natural, whether friend-to-friend or erotically igniting) on the silver screen. Our screen kiss is something in-between, very nostalgic. All this without actually being intimate. Whew! Hot, hot, hot! And, again, no end in sight! We’ll be reshooting the scene this coming Sunday. Will I be even better and more authentic this second time?


Acting is already helping me write better. There’s no question in my mind that experience, in any form, is key to bettering both acting and authoring. Whichever, it’s having had the broadest life experience that makes a screen or literary character seem “authentic.” At least, that’s my take on it at this ever evolving time. So, if you would like to experience real screen or literary “authenticity” check out The STATIC Movie or grab a copy of my Amazon Genre Bestseller:


https://www.amazon.com/dp/0999693859


Just released as an Amazon Audible audiobook read by the incomparable Peter Pollock. Purchased for manga, animation and cinematic treatment by K. Simmons Productions.


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