While I know a lot of you have already gone back to school, we don't start until after Labor Day over here so my kids and I are still squeezing every last second out of summer while we have the chance. But I've also been burning the midnight oil (sort of literally...
Hi Hillary, I'm an author and I've worked with editors/publishers with my book. I understand that process but as a new playwright, I'm not sure how to go about getting my 3 plays critiqued, edited and proofread. I'm an indie author and self publish but I'm not sure...
If you're a YA writer having trouble breaking in, you might be better off getting started with writing YA plays first. I've been meaning to write a post about this for ages but then this question came in from the mailbag which gave me the perfect opportunity to...
Kanban for Writers My writing life is a many headed beast. I write fiction, non-fiction, freelance articles, stage plays and more under a variety of pen names. I'm always looking for better ways to prioritize and manage all these different project so I'm not running...
No, it's not just you. It is really freaking hard to write right now. The world has gone mad, everything is terrible and all that continuous fear and rage and stress makes it really hard to focus on anything, much less fiction. Creatives, like writers, are...
Remember all those annoying books they made you read in high school? Well, they're getting the roast they deserve in this new collection from YouthPLAYS called Lit on Fire! Full of funny shorts for classrooms, competitions and forensics, the plays can also be...
There are so many people on my social feeds right now talking about how much they miss writing now that NaNoWriMo is over and I know this is crazy but hear me out... what if you just kept writing? Like, what if you didn't stop just because we flipped the calendar...
Since early 2003, you've been hearing me talk about my project adapting the Italian fairy tale collection, Giambattista Basile's The Tale of Tales aka the Pentamerone, into a whole bunch of plays. There are six tales plays from this project finished so (of what I...
There is less than a week before we emerge, blinking, into sparkling December. While a handful of you have already finished your novel and are now winding the month down, adding finishing touches and picking out the sweater you'll wear in your author photo, the rest...
Wrimos, to be on pace, you should be hitting 20,000 words TODAY. If you're not there yet, do not fret! There's still plenty of time to hit 50,000 and beyond, you just gotta stick with it! We're due at the halfway point by Wednesday and then it's all downhill to the...
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