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A Writing and Re-Writing Weekend This weekend I am working on two things: Finishing my submission to PlayPenn's annual conference. Working on re-writes for American Triage. Seems easy enough. But I mainly have only Sa…
Getting My Head Back Into My Rewrites I have to start rewrites this week on American Triage so I dug out the latest printed draft, which is covered with all sorts of notes because a few weeks ago I read through to prep f…
Speech, Speech, Speech! That's right, I'm working on my talk for Evergreen Valley College. My goal is to have something written by the weekend so I can practice it in front of friends. It's a bit challenging writing abou…
Writing, Writing and Writing Some More This is going to definitely be a writing weekend. Sheesh, there's a lot to do this weekend: LaundryCleaningRewritesWriting that speech I'm giving in 2 weeks. Yowzers!I've been doin…
Character Development or My Trip to Oakland I went to Oakland yesterday after work where I was greeted by the intensely hot sidewalks radiating heat up at me. Yes, it was the warmest day yet in a string of summer-weathe…
Rewrites Continue Well, I've finished reading through American Triage. I have lots of notes and ideas for rewrites a few of the monologues. And this Saturday I'm interviewing a social worker, so I gotta go through my no…
Rewrites and Lovin' It Maybe it's a sign that I haven't written in a while, or that I'm improving as a writer (let's hope for the latter), but I'm really enjoying being in rewrite mode for American Triage. I've printed…
Two Invitations Within the span of a week I've received two invitations. One to be a speaker at an author series and another to have a play be part of a reading series. The reading series invite came first. I received…
And The Nominees Are...Redux So I don't know how I didn't catch this last Friday when I was looking at the 2009 Bay Area Critics Circle Awards nominee list that my friend Gloria Garayua scored a nomination for Principle…
Trilogy? They say things happen in three's. And then there's something about our Western mind set, something about phrases in three's as well (in prose and poetry). In most of my plays I have a lot of twins, character…