I’ve been intending to start writing my next play for a few weeks, now.  But the siren call of the TV or dirty dishes keeps luring me away.  I have a deadline to produce a first draft in about a month, so I really have to get moving on it!  I also have to submit…

They say you should write about what you know.  And what are you more knowledgeable about than the events that you have experienced?   Alas, you tread dangerous ground writing about things that friends and acquaintances may recognize.  After one of my performances of my play Cast Away, someone came up to me and asked, “Which…

I started this blog with the best of intentions to chronicle my journey as a playwright.  But the darn thing is that I’m a lazy bugger and I sometimes find it challenging enough just to get in my quota for writing, let alone writing about my writing!  Even when I just kept a journal, I…

I just finished writing my sixth play.  Yay!  But I was troubled by a previous wish. I have been wanting to write a full length play since the beginning.  Unfortunately, my plays only seem to want to be one act plays.  50 minutes or less.  It’s not a bad length for a Fringe show, but…

I was going to write this post a month ago, but procrastination got the better of me.  I’m glad it did because the Hamilton Fringe Festival happened and I got to see quite a few one person shows.  It gave me empirical evidence for the conclusion I had already reached. I’m working on my one…

Yesterday was a good writing day.  Today, not so good.  I didn’t get any writing done in the early part of the day and it’s likely that I’m not going to meet today’s target.  Okay, scratch that.  It’s inevitable that I’m not going to meet today’s target.  Avoiding the self-flagellation, I can examine this and…

What the heck am I doing?  I let two days go by without doing my quota.  No pages on Friday or Sunday!  The month is going to be over before I’ve even gotten halfway through the first draft. It’s hard when you keep looking at the big picture.  When you keep looking at how far…

Okay, I’m just taking a reality check for what needs to be done to get this play Cast Away written.  I have about six pages of script and various pages of notes so far.  Some of those notes will make it verbatim into the script.  But I do need to establish a plan to get…

In about two months, I will be onstage preforming a one man show called Cast Away.  The only problem is that I haven’t written it yet.  It’s an amorphous shape in my brain and I have some set bits for it, but I still have to write the thing.  I mean, if I was put…

I’m a big believer in setting goals.  And an important part of setting goals is creating tasks that move you towards those goals.  Instead of having a vague goal that you have no control over like “I want to be a famous playwright”; you create something that you can achieve, like “I will write 2…