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...
The follow up to my adaptation to The Green Bird was already well underway when I finished that project and, while I've referred to it generally a few times before, it's time to really introduce you to my next adaptation. In college, when I was working on my...
Playscripts has been doing this neat thing where they feature a different play each week and this week the spotlight's on my adaptation of The Love of Three Oranges! That means you can read the entire play, for free, right here until next Wednesday, August...
While my adaptation of The Love of Three Oranges stayed fairly close to the original (outside of everything related to the whole Narrator/Celio thing which was all me, baby), my adaptation of The Green Bird is fairly different from Carlo Gozzi's original. While...
My adaptation of Carlo Gozzi's The Green Bird is done and I'm incredibly excited to share it with you. There's  a lot to debrief after this massive project but I want to get some business out of the way first. While I may someday pursue traditional publishing options,...
I've had a writing epiphany and I think this one is a game changer. Back in December, I started adapting my plays Polar Twilight and New Year's Thieve as a MG novel. The first draft came very easily and it was pretty put together and I thought I'd be able to clean it...
There's something right now that you want to be doing but you can't seem to fit it into your life. Maybe it's more writing time or maybe it's something else but, whatever it is, the secret to forcing a new habit into your life is to line it up with what you're already...
One very simple writing tool I recently added to the mix was a dry erase board next to my computer monitor that's a priority list of all my projects. The board used to be a list of every project I wanted to write someday and it took me until recently to realize that...
Click the image above to see the rest of the posts in the series On a playwrighting group I belong to on Facebook, someone asked if anyone had an experience with self-publishing plays. I replied about how I had I self-published The Love of Three Oranges, racked up a...
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