I love listening to audio books. I started doing it years ago when we would drive to Montreal. They helped keep me awake on the long trip. Like TV, I find it hard to drift off if I’m listening to something. The library is a great source of audio books. And now that you can…
To say that Isaac Asimov was a prolific writer is an understatement. He wrote or edited over 500 books! Five hundred. I read that he would have many typewriters in his office. Each one dedicated to a different book or article that he was working on. This was before personal computers. When he got bored…
In Seth Godin’s book The Icarus Deception, he uses the myth of Icarus as an analogy for moving beyond the status quo. To become an artist and partake of the communication currency. But something Seth said about the myth struck me. One of the most interesting things about the myth of Icarus is something that…
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…
I’ve written over 130 blog posts this year. And the year isn’t half over yet. Last year, I wrote 15 posts. I’m still writing. But it’s not getting any easier. That’s not exactly true. The posts are difficult to write in the evening. Which is when I usually write them. If I get them written…
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.…
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…
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…
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