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Old Town is now streaming!

June 9, 2015 By Dan Finnen

Old Town, the tv pilot that I co-directed is now stream-able (is that a word?) on-demand through the producers’ IndieGoGo! For ten bucks you can watch the 22-minute episode as many times as your heart desires. You can also watch the trailer below. Old Town follows the three different stories of people working to make […]

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Filed Under: Misc, Writing Tagged With: #oldtownshow, Old Town, tv pilot, video

Orvieto is now online!

March 24, 2015 By Dan Finnen

My newest novella ‘Orvieto‘ is now online for you to download and read for free! Right now I have it hosted in PDF form on Scribd, and in the coming days I will have additional e-reader friendly versions up as well. I’ve set up an official page where I will always have the most up […]

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Filed Under: Writing Tagged With: dungheap.net, Helen Harvard Hump, novella, Orvieto

New Screenplay: One Pot Coffee Shop

February 16, 2015 By Dan Finnen

It’s been a while since I’ve added anything new to the ol’ Dungheap, so I just uploaded a new screenplay for a short film called One Pot Coffee Shop. I wrote this about a year ago with the intent of producing it, but I quickly realized that the scope of the project was a bit […]

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Filed Under: Theater, Writing Tagged With: dungheap.net, New play alert, One Pot Coffee Shop, Screenplay, the Dungheap

The Year in Words I Didn’t Know

January 3, 2015 By Dan Finnen

My Kindle has a funky little new feature that I’ve grown increasingly fond of over the past year. Traditionally, every time one holds their finger down on a word, it comes up with the definition. It’s an incredibly useful feature, and one that I now find myself sorely missing in physical books. (Looking up words […]

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Filed Under: Misc, Writing Tagged With: 2014, Kindle, vocabulary, vocabulary builder, words

I survived NaNoWriMo 2014

December 3, 2014 By Dan Finnen

Whew. I did it. Another 50,000 words in a month, and this time I did it along with thousands of people across the globe instead of by myself. NaNoWriMo (aka National Novel Writing Month) couldn’t have happened at a worse time for me. The first half of November was filled with 16+ hour workdays, then […]

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Filed Under: Writing Tagged With: nanowrimo, novel, Succubus, update

NaNoWriMo Begins!

November 1, 2014 By Dan Finnen

If you’re wondering why there may be more people hunched over laptops at Starbucks than usual today, it’s officially National Novel Writing Month season! Last February I participated in my own personal NaNoWriMo to write a practice novel of sorts, but now the official month and event has arrived and I’m giving it another go. […]

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Filed Under: Writing Tagged With: 2014, nanowrimo, National Novel Writing Month, Succubus

The Writer and the Chromebook

August 30, 2014 By Dan Finnen

For the past few years, I’ve been trying to find the perfect solution for writing while out and about. I have no problem with writing scripts by hand in my notebook, but my thoughts can’t keep up with my pen when I write narrative, making some sort of keyboard/screen solution necessary. I like to write […]

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Filed Under: Writing Tagged With: celtx, chrome os, chromebook, final draft, laptops, mac, os x, technology, word

What I’m Reading – July 2014

July 23, 2014 By Dan Finnen

I have something embarrassing to admit. Up until very recently, I had never read a Stephen King novel. I know, I KNOW. Stephen King is just so… ubiquitous. Every morsel he writes (and there are many) has been adapted into a film, television series, or interpretive dance. Many of these adaptations are now classics in […]

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Filed Under: Writing Tagged With: books, On Writing, Stephen King, The Dark Tower, The Stand, what I'm reading

Some thoughts on writing a novel in 30 days

March 2, 2014 By Dan Finnen

As I reported earlier this month, I decided to spend February doing my own personal NaNoWriMo and write a novel within 30 days. As of late Thursday night, I finally crossed the 50,000 word threshold, a full day ahead of schedule. (cue golf clap) I don’t know if the book I wrote is any good, […]

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Filed Under: Writing Tagged With: finished, nanowrimo, novel, The Sausage King, writing

Novel in a Month Update

February 15, 2014 By Dan Finnen

Some of you may or have noticed that I haven’t been posting quite as much this month as I typically do, and mostly that’s because I’m currently halfway through pounding out an entire novel within a month. Inspired by those crazy kids at NaNoWriMo, I decided to give it a try myself in February. I’m […]

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Filed Under: Writing Tagged With: February, nanowrimo, novel, random thoughts, The Sausage King, writing

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