Photo courtesy of Rutgers Prep Are you performing one of my plays? I am happy to offer visits (either in-person or via video chat) to student groups of any age who are currently producing any of my plays free of charge. It's a great opportunity for the cast and crew...
Every few months I'll be reading something and I'll have this full stop epiphany moment where I'll say to myself... Somebody just made this up and wrote it down. And I almost feel a bit betrayed for a second and then I immediately think... I could just make up any old...
You know what the very best cure for a NaNoWriMo hangover is? Hair of the dog! Just keep on writing! But sometimes that's not always so easy, especially if you're feeling a bit burned out and missing all the motivation and fun of the big NaNoWriMo event. My Wrimos...
My fellow Wrimos, November ends very soon. There are mere days left in NaNoWriMo. Some of you are still typing away, frantically trying to reach your writing goals and I am right there with you, trying to get as many words down between now and then to get there (at...
"They are making me feel bad," my five-year old said, holding back tears. She glared across the playground where half a dozen kids were scrambling up the brand new climbing rope mountain like monkeys. "They're making it look like it's easy but it's NOT easy because I...
You ever see one of those really pretty bullet journal pages and wish you had something like that for tracking progress but have absolutely no artistic ability? I was having that very feeling when I decided to make this cool NaNoWriMo 2018 word count coloring...
What a month, huh? Trying to think about writing with current events being what they are feels exactly like this GIF. And, at times like this, it's hard not to wonder what the point even is? When the world is a screaming vortex of bad and even tomorrow doesn't feel...
How do you prepare for a big undertaking like NaNoWriMo? You can just stumble into your novel-writing journey headfirst drunk buffalo style and hope it all works out. But you'll have your best shot at success if you do a little preparation before the month begins. But...
The 2016 election threw us all for a loop that we're still dealing with. Shortly after the election, I saw a tweet to the effect that you'll probably be able to tell exactly where writers were in their manuscripts when the election happened and I thought this was...
What is The Tale of Tales play? Around this time last year, I announced the premiere of a brand new play, The Tale of Tales. Considering I'm in the midst of a many year project of adapting Giambattista Basile's Tale of Tales collection in a dozen different ways,...
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