Is it me or do I look incredibly stupid in every thumbnail? This one might be the worst yet! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRAYl0MT7xo Anyway, if you'd rather read than listen, you can find the original here.
I don't know about you but there are still a few hours left to go before National Novel Writing Month starts in my neck of the woods and for some time zones there are many hours left before the starting pistol. But instead of sitting here chomping at the bit like a...
I've written a TON of posts and articles about NaNoWriMo in my decade+ participating in the event and serving as an ML and I'll be the first to admit that a lot of this info is really hard to find on this site. To that end, I've created this master post to serve as a...
Luck has absolutely nothing to do with NaNoWriMo. Let me explain in this video pep talk adapted from this popular post from years past. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0Lh3ij7jyw
I adapted one of my most popular NaNoWriMo pep talks into a video. Going to be doing that with several bits of old content in the near future since it just makes sense! Here is is below: https://youtu.be/lcq7Ga31URU
It's hard to say exactly what draws me to adaptation. Most of the time, I like something in it but hate the rest of it and I end up adapting it to "fix" whatever's annoying me about the original. But every now and then, I read a story that just makes me say aloud,...
In all the hubbub lately, I forgot to share that my play, Weak Days, won in the one-act category of The Chameleon Theatre Circle’s 16th Annual New Play Contest. They'll be a reading of the play with minimal staging at The Chameleon Theatre Circle's New Play Festival...
The end of summer is coming up and teachers other educators are looking for plays to do in the coming school year. Many of my plays are school friendly, The Love of Three Oranges is even a bestseller for high school theatre, so here's a quick overview of...
Sometimes a coincidence so weird happens, you just gotta share it. As you know, I'm adapting an old collection of obscure Italian fairy tales called the Pentamerone into several plays. Well, as part of that process, I wanted to find out the name of some other fairy...
Some people shouldn't own Photoshop because they'll just use it to make random stupid graphics. I am one of those people. Behold!...yeah. Somehow I convinced myself that making this was a productive use of my limited time tonight. It probably wasn't. But I kept...
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