Archive: Blank Slate category
Being in a font design sort of mood, I was reading last month's MyFonts newsletter interview with Jim Parkinson, and I came across this bit on how he starts out:
Every alphabet or typeface I did from Hallmark on until the End of Analog was done in essentially the same ...
I haven't done a very good job of keeping up with this blog lately, have I. :) As it happens, I got a little, um, distracted, but I'm happy to report that the distraction has left as abruptly as it came, and life is now back to normal again.
It ...
We had our closing performance of the show -- Lost and Found -- tonight. The house was more full than it had been for any of the other five performances, and the audience was great -- very receptive, they laughed a lot, and overall it was just an amazing ...
Great post on Segullah by Chris Bigelow entitled Mormon Literature: Carving Out a Middle Niche?
Piddling around with Mormon niche markets is okay, as far as it goes (which isn’t far). But for me, the real holy grail of Mormon literature would be for a Mormon author to break ...
We survived opening night! The show is the reason I've hardly blogged on here lately, and it'll probably be that way for the next few days. In the meantime, though, here are some quick thoughts I've had on my playwriting.
Thus far, my dialogue tends to be mostly "It's ...
I redesigned Top of the Mountains yesterday. Here's what it used to look like:
And here's what it looks like now:
It's a cleaner design, more in line with my current aesthetic sensibilities, and done pretty much completely from scratch. (I ...
Great post by Robert Starling (via Gideon Burton) on Mormon Renaissance yesterday, called High Expectations for Mormon Filmmakers. This part was particularly inspiring:
In a “behind the scenes” portion Dr. Woodbury was recorded saying something that has guided my creative life. He had gathered his cast and crew ...
Script Frenzy has begun. One hundred pages in thirty days. Here we go. :)
You know, I actually completely forgot about it until this morning, when I realized it was April 1 and thus the beginning of the frenzied scriptwriting. I almost decided not to do it, ...
I've started using Google Docs in earnest again. Before, I hadn't really used the folders at all, and I'd left everything on the "inbox" page, which made it rather cluttered. But today I organized my folders and put everything in its proper place, then cleaned up the ...
In commenting on David Hulet's post on the recent BYU writing salon, I realized the topic was something I wanted to write about some more.
How do I write? Spurts (squeezed out by deadlines) have been most common for me, but I agree with David that a regular, set ...
