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...
There was drama in the world of Muppets this week. Steve Whitmire, the puppeteer that Jim Henson himself personally trained and picked to succeed him in the role of Kermit the Frog, one of two original Muppet performers left, is no longer with the Muppets. Kermit has...
Time is absolutely rocketing by and it is unacceptable. Baby is getting all big and stuff which is very rude when I want her to stay tiny and snuggly forever. But she said, "Mama" a week ago so I forgive her. The other one said just about every word in the dictionary...
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 was going to make the title of this post a play on May Day and then fell into a Wikipedia hole about May Day, the spring holiday, vs MayDay, the distress signal, and barely escaped so that's why you got a boring title instead. The fact that it is already June is...
Having bid our official farewell to Old House (as my 4 year old calls it), it's time to talk a bit about New House. To start with, it's lovely and has much to recommend it, though there are also a fair amount of headaches we knew were coming because it's an old house...
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...
When my husband and I were first looking for our first house, we were dead set against townhouses. Every house looking the same, no real yards, no thank you. Then we found this magic townhouse on a dead end and changed our minds. Because while it looked like a...
Multiple people told me they assumed I'd be taking the April session of Camp NaNoWriMo off this year because of the new baby and I was like, "Ha! Have you met me?" It would have been sensible and healthy to take Camp NaNoWriMo off after just having a baby so OF COURSE...
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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