Popping in with a quick bit of news about a brand new release! Just released from YouthPLAYS, an anthology of plays originally written for streaming which includes one of my favorite plays I've ever written, Nana's Happy Happy Good News Only Birthday Video Chat. The...
One of the reasons I'm such a big fan of keeping records and analyzing how you work is you realize two things. The first is that we've all got our little quirks and you'll almost immediately start to recognize patterns that amount to Your Individual Weirdness. Stuff...
So, um, yeah. Crazy times we're having, no? Social media as we know it is imploding. There's a boycott and mass exodus going on with all the biggies (Facebook, X/Twitter, TikTok and Instagram) hemorrhaging users as people delete their accounts. I've never seen...
I take a lot of writing workshops. Why? Well, because I think you can never really learn enough about writing craft and sometimes having a fresh perspective on content you may have learned before can help you understand it better. I also like having an excuse to...
Heads up that I have an online writing workshop coming up. This class will be entirely online so you can work through it at your own pace from the comfort of anywhere! Non-Fiction, Freelance, Blogging and other ways to get started with writing the real world March 3,...
Heads up that I have an online writing workshop coming up. This class will be entirely online so you can work through it at your own pace from the comfort of anywhere! Revitalize Your Author Platform: Making the most out of your author website, blog, mailing list,...
2024 was a busy year for me and I finished two brand new plays that I feel confident saying are some of my best work. My mailing list got a sneak peek at these plays last summer, but I'm finally making them available to everyone with a special contest to help me get...
Heads up that I have an online writing workshop coming up. This class will be entirely online so you can work through it at your own pace from the comfort of anywhere! Now What? Taking Your New Novel through Editing, Publication and Beyond January 13, 2025 - January...
The relentless passage of time bringing anyone else down? Somehow, we have zoomed to the end of another year, one in which I have been lax at blogging. This is partly because I have been super busy with classes and workshops and new plays that we will discuss in...
This Saturday, October 12 at 1 PM, I'll be doing an Intro to writing talk at the Linden Library. To sign up or for more info, visit the event page here. Here is the flyer with more info about this event: While this is my last class of 2024, I actually have seven...
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