Like I Say

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It's no news flash that, for many authors, writing is therapy. Nor is it news that scribes often suffer writer's blocks. Still, there's a certain freshness to Len Jenkin's Like I Say, which depicts a writer holed up in a seaside hotel trying to overcome obstacles to creation by getting a story out of himself.

Isaiah Sandoval (Jack O'Neill) has taken to sinking into chairs at the Hotel Splendide, which overlooks the water on some domestic coastal peninsula and which may have been splendide sometime in the past but is now far from it. A young woman called Rose (Carolinne Messihi) is attending to Isaiah's needs but she's too angst-ridden to serve him genially. The others hanging around with t[...]