How many words can you write in a 1 minute sprint with a random prompt? Because it's one thing to talk a good game but when you're under the pressure and the camera is rolling... can you deliver? Want to know how many words I can write in a minute? What kind of...
My husband and I decided to take the little one to Disney World a few weeks ago because it was the last year we could do it in the off season without her missing school, there'd been a lot going on so we all badly needed a break and, well, YOLO basically. We had a...
Here's what I've been working on since we last checked in... Remember last year when I had The Love of Three Oranges (one-act version), Sell Their Stuff, New Year's Thieve and the paperback of Beyond Amazon, eBay and Etsy all coming out within a few weeks of each...
While I never officially announced anything, some of you glimpsed the phrase "NaNoWriMo book" on my project list in this picture and I wanted to explain what that was about. I've written a ludicrous amount of content about NaNoWriMo over the years. Lots of pep talks,...
The end of summer is coming up and teachers other educators are looking for plays to do in the coming school year. Many of my plays are school friendly, The Love of Three Oranges is even a bestseller for high school theatre, so here's a quick overview of...
Sometimes a coincidence so weird happens, you just gotta share it. As you know, I'm adapting an old collection of obscure Italian fairy tales called the Pentamerone into several plays. Well, as part of that process, I wanted to find out the name of some other fairy...
Funny how the business of being a writer always seems to get in the way of the actual writing. Between some personal stuff cutting into the time I have to work and all the little administrative stuff there is to do for the launch of The Green Bird, I'm rather behind...
Some people shouldn't own Photoshop because they'll just use it to make random stupid graphics. I am one of those people. Behold!...yeah. Somehow I convinced myself that making this was a productive use of my limited time tonight. It probably wasn't. But I kept...
The follow up to my adaptation to The Green Bird was already well underway when I finished that project and, while I've referred to it generally a few times before, it's time to really introduce you to my next adaptation. In college, when I was working on my...
Playscripts has been doing this neat thing where they feature a different play each week and this week the spotlight's on my adaptation of The Love of Three Oranges! That means you can read the entire play, for free, right here until next Wednesday, August...
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