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The Archives: Writing
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[Cross-posted from Blank Slate.]
We had our closing performance of the show — Lost and Found — tonight. The house was more full than it had been for any …
New Play Project’s Lost & Found show opens this week, featuring seven short plays on religious themes, and it’s going to be good. :) Yes, yes, I’m biased …
So, I’m doing Script Frenzy this month. I would blog about it on here, but I’m trying to move most of my writing/art/etc. posts over to Blank …
5. How I write
[Cross-posted from Blank Slate because I want to go to bed right now instead of writing a whole new post. :P]
How do I write? Spurts (squeezed out by …
On Tuesday we had a joint New Play Project workshop with the BYU group Write2Publish (which went really well!), and while there I found out about the upcoming Publishers Fair. …
When I dropped out of grad school a month ago, the plan was to go into publishing (specifically typesetting/book design) and write on the side, eventually doing more writing …
First, does anyone know if writing on your hand (in pen, of course) has any long-term side effects of the not-so-good variety?
Second, it’s really hard to get to …
Just a quick note to say Safe and Sound got accepted and will be performed April 11–12 (probably at 7:30 and at the Provo Theatre Company as usual). Auditions …
10. Fa so la ti
Running a little late tonight, because I just barely finished writing the second play (Safe and Sound) and submitted it mere seconds ago. I’ll write more about that on …
11. Snowstorm finale
Yet another Snowstorm post. :) (But it’s the last one.) We had the encore performance of “Eccentricities” tonight, and it went quite well, even though the place wasn’t …
12. Snowstorm update
I should stop waiting till the end of the day to blog. :) This’ll be short — all I’ve got to say is that because last night and tonight …
13. Page to stage
My play Snowstorm opened tonight. With my last play I went to several of the rehearsals and runthroughs, so I had a fairly good idea walking into the premiere …
[Cross-posted from Mormon Renaissance. We’re trying to get the discussion going over there, so if you do comment, it’d be great if you could post your comments on …
15. Taking the exit
So, I, um, dropped out of grad school today.
Technically, I only e-mailed my professors today to notify them, and I won’t be calling the school till Monday to make it …
I’m in love.
No, not a girl. It’s Beanstalk: hosted Subversion. This is so cool.
For the non-geeky among you, Subversion is one of the more popular version control …
Not that I want to keep blogging about being sick, but since it has taken over my world for the moment, it’ll unfortunately keep cropping up until it disappears. …
18. Seven habits
Tagging has two meanings in the blogosphere: the tags that categorize a post (whether internal or for some site like Technorati), and tag-you’re-it questionnaire thingies. I have …
19. Season for hymns
Earlier today I came across an interesting post on the Mormon Artists Group blog:
What will the hymnal of 2043 be like?
If the evolution of our hymnbook is any indicator, …
20. Goose girl
Last night I finished Shannon Hale’s The Goose Girl, and wow, it’s good. Spun into a novel from the Grimms’ fairy tale of the same name, Goose Girl …
Today I saw a blog post on writing a book in Google Docs. Interesting. One of the things that stuck out to me was the <div> hack …
22. Snowstorm
Writing one play wasn’t enough. Two weeks ago I got a hankering to submit something to the New Play Project’s Eccentricities playfest (the deadline was the 11th), …
Out with the old…
Last year I wrote 355 blog posts, which seemed like a lot until I went back to my 2006 New Year’s post and found that I …
Oscar Wilde says it best: “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
It’s been a long while since I went back …
Came across an interesting post on Design Observer today:
In Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare wrote a “rose by any other name would smell as sweet,” suggesting the meaning of …
26. Of pen and paper
[Sorry about the blog being down for most of today. Bluehost migrated my sites to a new server running PHP 5, and that messed up a few things. …
[Each week I send out stories in my ward announcements, and since I haven’t posted any of my fiction on here in a long, long time, here’s the story that’s …
28. Amor libris
I finished my finals last night. One semester of grad school down, three to go. But let’s not worry about the to-go part just yet — I’ve got …
It’s snowing. A lot. And I’m tucked up somewhat cozily on the fifth floor of the library, pecking away on this post as I do my darndest to …
30. Scaling Everest
Goodness, I completely forgot that today is C.S. Lewis’s birthday! (Thanks to Bruce Edwards for the reminder and also for the tribute he wrote.)
So, C.S. Lewis. …
I did it! Yes, you read that right, this is my last NaNoWriMo post of the year (let the rejoicing begin), because I hit 50,000 words a few minutes …
A few minutes ago I came across a fascinating letter by Cory Doctorow:
My writing career and Creative Commons are inextricably bound together. My first novel, Down and Out in …
Either yesterday or the day before, I got it into my head that today I’d write 10,000 words, to get caught up on my NaNoWriMo novel. After all, I …
35. Nine lepers
It’s Thanksgiving, I’m full, and it’s late. Since I don’t really feel like writing a full post, I’ll link to the series of “my favorite things” posts that I’ve …
36. Kindred spirits
I love book people. Nothing against the non-bookworms out there — many of whom I love as well — but avid readers are almost always incredibly interesting people. …
I was looking at this list of literary birthdays that comes through the library mailing list each week, and noticed to my delight that November 29th is not only C.S. …
Two days ago I was stuck in the middle of my novel, despairing because the tone had gone ludicrously lighthearted on me, and I was several thousand words behind, …
As I suspected, the honeymoon stage of writing my novel is over, and right now I’m mucking through the middle, wondering why on earth I signed up to do this. …
Drat, I forgot that I hadn’t blogged today. I also haven’t written my 2,000 words on the novel yet. (It’s getting harder and harder. But I will …
I’ve been posting a lot lately. While NaBloPoMo is why I haven’t missed a day this month, there’ve been several days with more than one post (like today), …
You’d think that writing a novel would eat up all my free time, but surprisingly it’s only taking about an hour a day, roughly. Which leaves plenty of time …
43. First contact
I’ll probably regret posting this, but what the heck. I realized yesterday that whenever I make initial contact with a girl I find rather attractive, I’m immediately scared to …
So, I had no plans to do NaNoWriMo this year. None. I mean, I’ve got to read twenty more books by the end of the year, and …
As I mentioned a few days ago, my play Candle in the Darkness premiered this past weekend. I recorded the first night with my digital camera and have …
46. The notebook
I don’t like legal pads. I want to like them, but I can’t. Notebooks where the pages come out when I don’t want them to are like fingernails …
I announced this before but figured it wouldn’t be a bad idea to mention it again. The New Play Project has accepted one of my plays, Candle in …
48. Two poles
I grew up with a distinct preference for British lit, and since that was what I liked best, that’s how my voice sounded when I first started writing. Now, …
And now for something different. :)
“Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to …
So, a month and a half ago I went to my first New Play Project performance, in the courtyard of the JFSB here on campus. It was fairly …
