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Writing Surge: It's A-Comin' Once again inspiration struck while I was doing my hair. You may laugh, but I find it's during those daily routines that we do...well...daily, that our minds have the opportunity to wander. M…
Directors, Directors, Every Where... You know me, I love riffing off that Coleridge line. This week is my week of meeting with, talking to and hanging out with directors--I love it! Especially when talking results in min…
Yet Another Crazy-Busy Week/Weekend My days kind of blur together. It's the frantic pace at my day job. I really should start keeping a diary again in order to keep track of the days. Meaning, keep track of all the small…
AlterLab Retreat Recap So much to process... In a good way. I spent the majority of my Saturday and Sunday up in San Rafael at the home of Ann Brebner. Ann is one of the AlterLab playwrights who, like me, participated in…
An ATLAS Program For Playwrights Theatre Bay Area's annual conference is coming up and in preparation for it TBA's Facebook page was putting out calls asking for artists to identify what issues they'd like to see taken u…
2013 Workplan: First Quarter Check-In I didn't do quarterly check-in's last year so I know they actually help me keep on track, focused and also help me see what I've accomplished. As I mentioned earlier this year my ann…
Weekend To Do List Hang out with my best friend.Rewrites. I have AlterLab in a week and need to get my draft to them next week so they can print out the scripts for my Wolf at the Door table reading.Read two plays by a f…
Submission Almost Away Part Deux Not so fast now. Or as my dad would say to us kids, "Hold your horses." I thought I had finished my Inkwell submission. But no. I haven't. Why? The fine print, my dear, that's why. Well,…
Submission Almost Away I've been working on my Inkwell submission for a while now. It takes a "a while" because when a submission requires that playwrights write responses to questions I take my time to craft each questi…
Recap I usually don't take breaks from blogging unless I'm traveling. Which I haven't been. Hmm....perhaps it's that I started journaling. I haven't been very good about keeping a diary, but thought I'd start with 2013 t…