“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.” -Albert Einstein We need to talk about this quote. By all accounts, Einstein was a smart dude (so much so that his name has...
My brain works in mysterious, often not particularly mainstream, ways. Every year, with NaNoWriMo, I sit down with the other writers and, when someone inevitably asks me what I'm writing, I get a response best described as, "Haha, very funny. What are you really...
I have a confession and, to be frank, I'm a little ashamed to admit it. But If I'm going to be fair to the realization I had about the value of personal posts and how helpful it can be to see other writers struggle and be real, I think I have to share it. To start...
I have created a very simple and very effective writing motivator. It's a spreadsheet in which I've listed every one of my works in progress. This ranges from finished and published works to ideas I've only just started to jot down notes for. I've given myself space...
It's been a little over a month since NaNoWriMo ended and we all parted ways for the holidays. Now that you've had the time to recover from your November writing hangover, you're probably wondering... What do I do now with that novel I wrote for NaNoWriMo? It's a big...
New Year's Thieve is currently free on Amazon until January 1st, 2015 and since this is the very last time I'll be able to offer the eBook for free, I'm trying to get it in front of as many eyeballs as possible. To that end, I've taken some of the most popular New...
Hello, I am directing your wonderful play, The Love of Three Oranges. We have just begun rehearsals and are enjoying the process greatly. I want to ask you about the relationship between Pantalone and the King. What character in our world would you liken Pantalone...
Aw, just look at them. They look so cute together. I had the two of them sitting on my desk and I just had to snap a picture. It's crazy. The one-act version went from "Eh, I'll try it." to published in less than a year. It was December of last year that I told...
I am a human being. Flawed. Flailing. Far from polished. For the longest time, I've been trying to limit the number of personal posts I put on this blog. Things like word count updates, posts where I ramble about my various works in progress, or those posts where I...
"Stop looking at the mountain of words you've yet to write. You climb even the steepest path one step at a time and that’s how you’re going to reach your goal: word by word." -Hillary DePiano That quote above is from a pep talk I did for Camp NaNoWriMo (whole thing is...
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