Mere hours stand between us and the beginning of National Novel Writing Month. Whether you're about to attempt your first novel or your fifty first, it's going to be a wild ride of fun and productivity. As soon as the clock ticks over to November 1st, it's time to...
At the start of the summer, the 4 year old and I planted a whole row of sunflower seeds. We tended them with love and the plants were a couple of inches tall ... when the guys that do our lawn decided to bathe the entire row in weed killer. (They are very nice people,...
Especially this time of year with schools and community theatres setting up their seasons, planning for the school year ahead or looking for competition friendly pieces, I get a lot of emails from groups who need a recommendation for which play of mine best fits their...
I covered this already in my Self-Publishing a Stage Play series in another post but this is far and away the most frequently asked question on this series so let's have another go at it, shall we? "What if someone tries to perform my play without permission?" TD; DR...
In all the moving / having a baby madness of the last year, I finished a play but forgot to actually tell anyone about it for almost an entire year! (Like, seriously 11 months almost to the day as I finished it on August 29th, 2016.) This play is The Myrtle, the fairy...
You can always tell when I'm catching up on my inbox when I do a lot of mailbag posts in a row. Relatedly, here's another one: We met last year during NaNoWriMo (October 2016) in preparation for our arduous month ahead. Thanks for all the great info. I wrote 50K words...
Here's another one from the old mailbag about self-publishing a stage play... I recently read your article about self-publishing and wanted to reach out and ask. I recently saw that several contests for schools require schools to perform one-act plays (under 30...
I have a brand new play, The (Completely Inaccurate) Legend of the Mummy Witch House, which has just officially been published by Playscripts. You can read the play for free*, purchase scripts or license productions here. It's a short, very silly,...
I've tried to write this post a dozen times already and gotten too annoyed to continue every time. Why? Pull up a chair, I'll try to explain without rage-quitting this time. You know I strive for complete transparency in my writing process so join me for a journey...
Despite the fact that life with a new baby is chaos and we've got the multipliers of a preschooler and having just moved to monkey wrench the whole dealie, I feel like I'm doing much better than I did after my first daughter was born. Not just from a mental health and...
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