I just found out at this production of The Love of Three Oranges happening in Santa Ynez, California this weekend and I just had to share their poster with you because, well, look at it... Do you not love Ace the royal cat in the bottom right corner? I died of...
I mentioned the Longwood University production of The Love of Three Oranges here and here but when Brian pointed me to the trailer they made for their production, it was just too awesome not to share! (If the embed doesn't work, here's the direct link: Longwood...
For most of my life, I worked on the project affectionately known as Wife Novel. I have rewritten it close to two dozen times completely from scratch and it still isn't something I'd like to show anyone yet. But I bring it up because, I was determined to finish Wife...
I completely changed how I keep track of my writing goals this year to something that very specifically fit my needs this year and you can read about that here and here. But before that I had a more general system for keeping track of my writing, editing and various...
March 2nd through March 8th is Read an eBook Week 2014. In honor of this, I'm having a giveaway. I'll be choosing several winners (the exact number depends on how many people enter but I can promise it will be at least two) so you've got a good chance of going home...
Something just happened to the little one and I that was wrong and ridiculous and made me so angry I was shaking. The one thing that I kept focusing on afterwards as I stayed cool and upbeat for my daughter was my inner mantra of "I am SO blogging about this!" And I...
To recap, this year I completely changed my yearly writing goal up making it harder (as only certain writing counted) and adding percentage based benchmarks to dictate what I had to work on. While there are a variety of smaller goals within this number, I set a goal...
I know. We've covered this before. But for some reason this misconception keeps coming up and it drives me batty. Take this line from The Rotunda's review of Longwood University's production of The Love of Three Oranges: In the style of “commedia dell’arte,” Hillary...
NaNoWriMo's been over for almost 3 full months now and many of you haven't even touched your novel since then. In fact, that's one of the biggest complaints NaNo participants have. Once the inspiration and frenzy of NaNoWriMo is over, how do you make yourself actually...
There's a rule you'll see over and over again in script writing that states that one page of script is about 1 minute of stage or screen time. You're told that a 30 minute play should be 30 pages or a 90 minute movie would be a 90 page script. But while it's better...
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