David Accampo | July 28, 2010
This post was originally published on Murmur.com. Last week I talked about my road from creative writing to an audio drama podcast. A bit of a twisty road, but it’s an interesting one. Obviously, the common link is story. If you know me at all, you know I’m all about the story. If you don’t, [...]
David Accampo | November 21, 2009
In the summer of 1998, I moved to Los Angeles from the Northern California Bay Area. As a writer and recent college graduate, it would be a fair assumption that I moved to LA to pursue a Hollywood career. This would be inaccurate. In truth, I moved to Los Angeles because my girlfriend at the time was originally from the San Fernando Valley, and she wanted to be closer to her family again. I was a writer in need of an adventure. And, oh, I would write — but not screenplays. No, I was a fan of stories like Nathanael West’s The Day of the Locust. I was a poet, dammit, not a crass commercial hack. Los Angeles would be the setting for my Great American Novel Which Observes LA from an Outsider’s Perspective. It was thus that I descended upon the city of angels with all the fervor of a budding anthropologist. The denizens of Hollywood would be my Gorillas in the Mist.
David Accampo | January 26, 2009
I recently lost my blog, “Hey That’s Dave’s Blog” to a hack attack. It now resides in the web-equivalent of Davy Jones’ Locker with my previous blogs, including “Pointless” and “The Inevitable Column.” However, I’ve used this malicious attack on my innocent blog to — in the immortal words of Oscar Goldman — “make it [...]