Yesterday, I made a thing. A reel, actually. A short video. And it wasn’t for a play I’m in. Or for a concert I’m promoting. It was just a message about creativity. You can check it out here. I’ll confess. It was an exercise for video bootcamp that I’m taking. But I did it. I…
There’s a time in the writing process, at the beginning, where it’s just hard. It’s a lot of effort to write when the story isn’t quite there. Every day, you struggle to get things moving until you get a rhythm going. At some point, if you’re lucky, you get the snowball effect where the idea starts…
I’ve been working on my new play idea since March. I keep calling it draft zero, because I really don’t know what it is about yet. I have a vague big picture idea. I can sort of see the forest. But I don’t know the story. I don’t know what happens. I can’t see the…
The Mega 80s Mixtape concerts are done now. A pleasant memory and a great time! Sean, Matt, and I (The Three Amigos) had fun emceeing. We got to be silly and stand in front of the choir instead of being at the back for the whole show. 😉 We had even more fun planning and…
I started May writing a post about creativity. Here we are into the final week of the month and that’s the only post that I’ve written so far. But it has been a very creative month! I’ve spent my creativity in other areas than blog post writing. It’s been a great month for my playwriting.…
This week, I was at a play reading committee for a community theatre group. We were discussing twelve plays that we had all read over the last few weeks. The group is trying to determine the playbill for an upcoming season. We come from different walks of life and have different tastes. It wasn’t easy…
I remember when the book The Creative Act by Rick Rubin came out a few years ago. I didn’t read it then, but I was aware of it. I considered buying the book because I’m fascinated with creativity. I decided to take it out of the library instead of buying it. It wasn’t available at…
Sometimes I get mad at myself because I don’t write as much as I think I should. I don’t reach out to the people I want to touch base with. I don’t read the books I buy or take out from the library. I don’t exercise when I know I should. So many things I…
Sometimes I talk myself out of doing something before trying. A bit of writing. Or something else creative. I’m talking myself out of doing it because I’m trying to save effort. Why do something if it isn’t going to work, right? Maybe. Maybe not. Other times, I do it and see if it works. Last…
I’ve just finished my first week of being 63. The body is getting older but my spirit still feels young. It continues to be strange reconciling my mental image with my physical reality. This week, a cashier gave me the senior discount without even asking. They looked at me and applied it. I’m not sixty-five…
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