There’s a time in the writing process, at the beginning, where it’s just hard. It’s a lot of effort to write when the story isn’t quite there. Every day, you struggle to get things moving until you get a rhythm going. At some point, if you’re lucky, you get the snowball effect where the idea starts…
I’ve been working on my new play idea since March. I keep calling it draft zero, because I really don’t know what it is about yet. I have a vague big picture idea. I can sort of see the forest. But I don’t know the story. I don’t know what happens. I can’t see the…
I started May writing a post about creativity. Here we are into the final week of the month and that’s the only post that I’ve written so far. But it has been a very creative month! I’ve spent my creativity in other areas than blog post writing. It’s been a great month for my playwriting.…
In February, I said that my word for the Year of the Groon 63 was “create”. I’m a couple of months into Groon 63 and it’s been going well. As usual, I was a bit slow getting started with my creating. But by mid-March, I had a rhythm going of writing 100 words a day…
This week, I was at a play reading committee for a community theatre group. We were discussing twelve plays that we had all read over the last few weeks. The group is trying to determine the playbill for an upcoming season. We come from different walks of life and have different tastes. It wasn’t easy…
I remember when the book The Creative Act by Rick Rubin came out a few years ago. I didn’t read it then, but I was aware of it. I considered buying the book because I’m fascinated with creativity. I decided to take it out of the library instead of buying it. It wasn’t available at…
Sometimes I get mad at myself because I don’t write as much as I think I should. I don’t reach out to the people I want to touch base with. I don’t read the books I buy or take out from the library. I don’t exercise when I know I should. So many things I…
I’ve just finished my first week of being 63. The body is getting older but my spirit still feels young. It continues to be strange reconciling my mental image with my physical reality. This week, a cashier gave me the senior discount without even asking. They looked at me and applied it. I’m not sixty-five…
My year, the Groon Year, ends in late February. But it’s hard not to reflect on the calendar year as December comes to an end. And I realized that I haven’t posted about a milestone that I reached in the late summer. I became an International Playwright! Yes, one of my plays had a staged…
I discovered that being creative is like exercise. If you stop doing it regularly, you’ll soon stop doing it at all. Last year, I was shooting to write 365 blog posts. After reaching that goal, I decided to cut back and write 52 posts for the rest of this year. Guess how many posts I’ve…
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