What are you waiting for to start that project? To start your exercise program? To start learning that thing? The moons to align? When things quiet down? When you’ve done enough research? When you “feel” ready? You will almost NEVER feel ready. There’s no perfect time to start. Yes, there are some better times to…
Now, it’s hitting me. The post show doldrums. For months, there was a build up to putting on a show. And for weeks, we put on Burn. Now, it’s all done. My next show doesn’t start rehearsals until September. I’ve got over two months of… Freedom? Boredom? Opportunity? I still have a few things to…
I’m still having trouble getting going on my playwriting. It’s weird. First, I was trying to write 5 lines of dialogue a day. Didn’t happen. Then it was 5 sentences a day. Similar but less. Still didn’t happen. Now, I’m hoping to write one sentence a day. I’ve been able to meet that target two…
Typically, when we are setting goals, we try to pick something that’s hard to reach. You want to do something you’ve never done before. Or when you get to a certain level, you pick the next level to get to. You “raise the bar”. The problem with raising the bar is that you are shooting…
Today is the last day of the day the Dramatist’s Guild’s month long “End of Play”. And I didn’t do much writing. Doh! But I’m going to push that effort out to May, instead. Or I should save it for June? May is going to be busy with Burn ramping up. Lines must be learned.…
Nominations for the Western Ontario Drama League (WODL) came out last week. And the play that Deb directed, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? got a bunch of award nominations. It wasn’t Deb’s idea to do the play. Mark and Kelly, who played George and Martha, proposed the play to Michelle at Theatre Burlington. They knew…
I have a spreadsheet where I’ve brainstormed some blog post ideas. And I’ve put tentative dates on when I want to write those posts. But when I go to write the post, I often don’t feel like writing about the topic scheduled for today. It should be simple. I should write the next thing on…
You set a goal. And you move towards that goal. Why do we get distracted? Why do we veer off course? We have the best intentions. We WANT to do the thing… But… TV. Social Media. Laundry. Anything. There’s the analogy of airplanes being off course 90% of the time. And the only reason they…
Over the past couple of days, I’ve seen posts by two playwrights. They’ve had professional productions of a few of their plays. The thing is, I met them before they had written any plays. But I had written some when I met them. Theoretically, I was further along than they were. Their success has surpassed…
The problem with writing a play is that you have to write the play. The writing is the sucky part. Or it is for a lot of people. It is for me, sometimes. It’s like exercise. I don’t like exercising, but I like having exercised. It’s great when I’ve done the writing. When I’m finished.…
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