You know what drives me crazy? Getting good ideas when I’m doing something else that requires my attention. Like driving to work, for instance. I get lots of great ideas while driving to work. But it’s hard to jot down those ideas for later when I must concentrate on the cars around me. And the…
I spent a good amount of time reading plays this week. I’m on a play reading committee. And our first meeting was today, so I needed to have some plays to recommend. I read more plays this week, than I’ve read in the last couple of years. That’s crazy! I should be reading more plays.…
I submitted a play to the Hamilton Fringe Playwriting Contest. I didn’t expect to win. And I didn’t. I didn’t even place in the top three. Who knows? Out of 54 entries, mine might have come in at 54… I didn’t expect to win. I didn’t expect to place. Why did I submit a play…
Choir started up this week. Unfortunately, I can only attend for the next few weeks. Starting February, my play rehearsals will conflict with choir rehearsals. Choir rehearsals are recorded though. So, I can listen to them after the fact and work on the songs on my own. My play should finish before the choir’s big…
I don’t usually use “chunking” as a productivity process. Chunking is when you batch up similar types of work and dedicate time to do them. For example, I could “chunk” writing blog posts. I could spend a couple of hours on a Saturday or Sunday. And write a bunch of blog posts. In fact, I…
The last couple of months have been stumbles for me. In terms of blog posting. November was bad enough. I only did about half the posts that I should have. And December was worse! I thought I’d catch up on my posting since most of my commitments were finishing up at the beginning of the…
Can we do it all? All the things we want to do? All the things we want to try? No. Obviously. There’s not enough time in the day. But… We can do more than we settle for. This December has not been productive for me. I’ve been slacking off with my blog posting. I’ve got…
It’s Friday night and for the first time in a few weeks, I don’t have to get ready for a performance. I don’t have to review my lines. I don’t have to make the trip to Grimsby to get ready for The Game’s Afoot. I also don’t have time to really miss those things, either!…
I was intending to submit something to the Hamilton Fringe Playwriting Contest. I had missed the deadline, but it got extended a week. I found an older project that had fizzled out, but I thought I could submit it with a little tweaking. You’d think I would have taken full advantage of the extra time…
The lottery results for the Montreal Fringe are in! And we were not successful. Wah! It was a record year for submissions to the Montreal Fringe and I’m happy for them. But it worked against us. We are on the waiting list again. This time, we aren’t close to the front of the line. We…
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