I consider Steven Pressfield to be my writing coach. I read his book Do The Work before I start a new project. I’ve just finished reading it again as I revisit my play Minced. Pressfield describes the creative process accurately. And encourages you to find your way through the Resistance that will challenge you. The…
I’ve been waffling for months to get started on another playwriting project. And I decided to revisit one of my old plays: Minced. Minced is a one act play with two characters. I always thought it could be expanded into a longer piece. And taking a page from Great By Choice, I can consider it…
It’s been a while since I mentioned any Woo Woo events. I mean they might be coincidences… Or they might be Woo Woo… I’ve been wanting to start my next playwriting project. And I was debating working on something new or revisiting one of the projects that I hadn’t finished. And then, I thought what…
I was talking with an acquaintance last weekend. It was at a party, and I hadn’t spoken to this person in a while. She told me that she still thinks about my play Minced. And she asked why it hasn’t been performed more. It’s flattering to know that something I wrote still lingers in the…
“It’s the good advice, that you just didn’t take And who would’ve thought it figures?” Alanis Morrissette A year ago, my brother suggested that I make a Kindle version of my book Laund-o-mat at the End of the World. (The typo in the title is deliberate.) It’s a collection of three of my one-act…
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…
It’s the day after the night before and I survived the play reading. It went better than expected. People laughed. Which is good when the play is a comedy… Even if it’s a dark comedy. The actors did a great job reading all of the excerpts! But it still felt weird. I sat in the…
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” George Santayana I originally meant to write this post a couple of weeks ago, but a Christmas cold grabbed hold of me and refused to let go. Although the cold is still lingering, I figured I better get this post done before January ended.…
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