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…
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…
I’m a deadlines kind of person. It’s often difficult for me to focus on a task unless there’s a deadline. Especially when it comes to writing. The Hamilton Fringe has a playwriting contest which I’ve applied to a few times. I even won it once. I’ve intended to apply more times than I have, though.…
Another benefit of going to the Fringe is getting inspired to work on some of your own projects. Fringe-spiration comes from the shows you see that you liked. From the shows that you saw that could have been better. And from all the conversations you have with people during the Fringe. The…
The other day, I got an email from Amazon. They were going to be paying me my royalties for my book Laund-O-Mat at the End of The World and Other Fringe Favourites. It was published in 2014 and I was going to receive a whopping $17.95! Whoo hoo! To be honest, I didn’t think I…
Monday was a good day. It didn’t start that way, but it’s funny how one thing can change your entire outlook on the day. Sunday night and early Monday morning were devoted to completing the next draft of my play “Mommy’s Mask”. I had started writing the play 5 years ago when I took a…
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