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A WRITER’S JOURNEY


I started writing The Rose and the Thorns in the summer of 1998. This represented a whole new direction for me. Yet, in retrospect I realize I always had this creative side. 

1995 was a watershed year. That April, while marketing what would be my first published article post Wellesley, someone asked out of the blue: “Have you ever considered writing fiction?” I had, in fact, written a play that my third grade class performed, and some twenty years later started to ponder writing a spec sitcom. Then, a confluence of factors continued to steadily nurture this creative seed, and I began to study screenwriting and after much perseverance and many drafts, completed The Rose and the Thorns, my first feature film screenplay.

Also in the summer of 1998, I started focusing more intently on developing my first sitcom, writing the pilot, which BBC Entertainment reviewed when I was working for BBC America during its launch phase.  BBC Entertainment provided valuable comments—the first of many I’ve received along the way, enabling me to develop what one TV development executive called a “clever and fun” sitcom.

In the intervening years, I have also become a regularly published commentary and features writer and enclose samples of my work, below.

As for what success I might achieve, I always keep in mind what the executive producer of Miami Vice told me: “It’s the becoming not the being.”


— Mary Claire Kendall, July 2011

 



REPORTING & OPINION:



FEATURES:

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EXPOSITORY:


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REPORTING & OPINION (continued):