Archive: Blank Slate category
This afternoon I had a few spare minutes and so I stopped in the periodicals section of the library to skim through some issues of Leading Edge, the BYU science fiction and fantasy magazine. (I'm going to start submitting stories to them.)
In issue #52, from October 2006, I ...
Each week I send out the ward announcements, and for the past two years or so, I've included a "Storytime" segment with, well, stories. :) They're first drafts, completely off the cuff (usually written in the half-hour before I send out the announcements), but they're fun to do. ...
At the prodding of a friend, I've started writing some new music for the hymn "Does the Journey Seem Long?" The melody actually just sort of came to me when I was walking home from stake presidency meeting this morning, and I wrote it down, fleshed it out, revised ...
This morning I came up with an idea for an exercise I'm going to do soon: write seven plays in seven days. Short plays, of course. :) The primary constraint will be that on the first day, that play will have only one character, the second play will ...
Here I am writing plays, but do I actually read any? I realized today that if I don't see what else is out there -- and see it in script form, not just on stage -- then I'm going to get into a rut where I'm effectively writing the ...
Earlier today Katherine posted "Toward a Mormon Renaissance" over at Mormon Renaissance (how fitting :)). It's an essay by James Goldberg, one he read at the beginning of New Play Project's "Thorns and Thistles" set of plays (which happened to be when my first play was performed, incidentally) ...
Yesterday we held the first rehearsal for Prodigal Son (James Goldberg's play that I'm assistant directing), and tonight's the first Safe and Sound rehearsal. As a playwright, my role in rehearsals really is up to the director; some don't care if I'm involved (with Snowstorm, for example, I didn't ...
On days when I'm tired (like today), it seems like designing is a whole lot easier than writing. Drafting out the new stake leadership directory went smoothly, but even just the thought of writing was enough to make me want to take a nap. (Which is what I ...
Over the past few days I've been revising Safe and Sound, trying to gut out the flaws and replace them with new, living flesh. With every rewrite, though, it's hard to tell if I'm actually making things any better. Sometimes I can tell that I am, but sometimes ...
A couple weeks ago I designed some cards for stake conference:
I did it all in Photoshop, then got them printed double-sided at a normal business card size. A fun little project.
