(No time to read this? There's a video/audio version here.) "Best of luck with your novel!" "Good luck with NaNoWriMo this year!" "Sorry you didn't win last year but hopefully you'll have better luck this year." This is me over and over again as we edge ever closer to...
Guys, I've been having a problem. A NaNoWriMo problem. See, I love NaNoWriMo. You know this. I love it so much that I became an ML and I donate MANY hours of my very little, precious time to bringing others the best NaNoWriMo experience that I can. I love being an ML....
It's been a wild couple of weeks here in Babytown and work time has been hard to come by. So, for that matter, have been brain cells so I haven't exactly been on my A game. But we've had a couple of days of calm so I'm taking the luxury of deluding myself that it'll...
Tomorrow is my birthday. Today is my last day as 33. Not a particularly milestone-y birthday but I wanted to note something about it before it passed. One thing that completely escaped my notice last year was that I was apparently living my life right on schedule...
For anyone who's attended Bucknell University, Perkins is a way of life. It's one of the only restaurants that's within walking distance of campus (especially the part of campus where most freshmen, who aren't allowed cars, live) and it's open very late (back in my...
A few years ago, my father was multiple books into a series before he realized the main character was black. Shortly thereafter, I was reading a book and didn't realize until halfway through it that the main character was female. When I told my dad about my this to...
Just a quick addendum to this post. As I mentioned, there have now been over 100 productions of The Love of Three Oranges since I wrote it in 2002. But nearly productions did multiple performances of the show during their run so you may be wondering, how many...
I wrote The Love of Three Oranges as part of my honors thesis on comedy my senior year of college. As you could imagine, I spent a lot of time doing research on comedy that year and my friends had all heard me go on about it at one point or another. I tried to resist...
Me: This book is depressing me. Long Suffering Husband: What's it about? Me: It's not what it's about that's the problem. It's how well it's written. I've heard people talk about getting intimidated by really good writing but it's never actually happened to me before....
People often ask how different writing prose is from stage plays and, to me, the biggest difference is what happens once they are finished. Whenever you finish any writing and publish it, it goes out into the world without you and that's always a strange experience....
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