Let's chat NaNoWriMo! Come hang out with me in person this Monday night at 7 PM at the main branch of the Maplewood Library where I'll be answering questions and offering tips, tricks and advice on how to get through your first novel and the NaNoWriMo challenge! Ideal...
Where did the last month of my life go? Did one of you take it? If you did, I won't even be mad, just give it back because I am seriously not ready for it to be October already. Well, jeez, I guess this is happening so we might as well get down to it... (If any of you...
Exactly a month ago, I told you about my new short drama, Masks, which is part of the new anthology Bullying, INK. from YouthPlays. While you can purchase the play or license it as part of that collection, for the first time, it's now available as a standalone play...
Novelists have been doing this sort of post for a while, an all-in-one debrief on exactly how they wrote one of their books day by day (here's one example and another but there are many out there), but it hasn't caught on yet in the playwriting community. It's a shame...
Reader, I am frustrated. It's about the MG book I've been working on for a while now that is based on two of my plays. "A while" here meaning a period of time impossible to properly quantify as I originally spent a year writing what I realized was actually Book 2...
It is my personal theory that everyone has one. "I can't pick you up right now, bud. I'm already carrying 37 billion things." "The doctor's went fine apart from the fact that I had to sit in the waiting room for 37 hours before they saw me." "Those socks are 37 years...
I think this might be the first time I've written my writing recap after the month has already ended. Here’s what August 2016 looked like in writing… Yearly Goal 556,549/600,000 words (93%) Monthly Goal My goal was to take August off. This meant, I could write if I...
I did a guest post for the Playscripts blog on Friday called Frugal Fantasy: Making Magic on a Less Than Fantastical Budget filled with tips for making magical effects happen on the stage even if you're working on a school or community theatre budget. It's filled with...
My new short play, Masks, deals with bullying and I'm pleased to announce that it's been included in the brand new anthology on that topic from YouthPLAYS called... (Not an official logo or image in any way, just something I threw together in five seconds for this...
One of the challenges of an adaptation of The Green Bird is that I have to serve two masters (obligatory commedia reference!) which means that the sort of risque joke a commedia troupe or community theatre can do might be too much for a school. To that end, I'm...
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