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...
You've written a play and you'd really like another set of eyes on it to make sure it's working as intended. But while beta readers for fiction works, such as novels and short stories, are fairly easy to come by, most writing forums and critique sites aren't geared...
One of the first days after my husband's parental leave ended, my parents offered to come over my house in the morning and watch both kids for me for a couple of hours so that I could have some time to myself. I was very excited. Sure, I'd have to still nurse the baby...
Because of the newborn baby in my life, I've been looking for unconventional ways to get work done when I'm one-handed because I'm nursing, holding the baby or whatever. One of these experiments is the return of voice-to-text dictation which long time readers will...
The best scary stories are the ones that are at least partly true... (This isn't one of those stories.) Coming Spring 2017 I've got a brand new short comedy to share with you this spring in a super spooky collection from one of your favorite play publishers. Wacky and...
By popular request, I'm reposting this updated for 2017. It's exactly the same as last year, only the dates are updated in the spreadsheet (I didn't update the screenshots, so sue me). I do have a slightly different system I'm personally using this year that I'll...
It's a brand new year which means it's the traditional time of setting new goals and resolutions for the year ahead. For us writers, that can mean setting deadlines or striving for new writing habits in the coming year. I think taking a few minutes to write down...
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