Archive: Blank Slate category
Yesterday morning I was browsing through my copy of Tales Before Tolkien, and I happened to notice the Recommended Reading section at the back, which I'd never seen before.
Goosebumps.
You see, that section lists early fantasy writers and their works (William Morris, E. Nesbit, Lord Dunsany, Walter de la Mare, John ...
Kevin Kelly's written a beautiful post on what artists can do to avoid the long tail:
One solution is to find 1,000 True Fans. While some artists have discovered this path without calling it that, I think it is worth trying to formalize. The gist of 1,000 True Fans can ...
I've been reading Madeleine L'Engle Herself: Reflections on a Writing Life, and it's chock-full of nuggets that inspire me to take up my pen and write, write, write. (The other part I love is that she's unabashed about her Christianity and its influence on her writing.)
Here's one bit I ...
As I mentioned on Top of the Mountains a few minutes ago, I'm going to try to simplify my life. I've got too much going on, and it's crazy. I've been addicted to busyness.
And it's hurting me as a writer and as an artist.
You see, I spend ...
I'll be assistant directing James Goldberg's play Prodigal Son in our New Play Project Lost and Found festival next month. It's my first time directing anything -- which is why I'm assistant director :) -- and in all honesty I have only the slightest idea what I'll be doing, ...
In thinking over where I am as a writer and where I want to go, I feel like the trees are fine, but the forest needs tending.
You see, I'm fairly satisfied with my ability to spin out words and link them into sentences. I can hold my own on ...
Two hours after the deadline, I got an e-mail from the New Play Project folks: Safe and Sound got accepted. :)
The funny thing is, I almost sort of knew it would (and that Alchemy wouldn't) in advance. I'm not sure how, but I wasn't surprised at all. I ...
Today I took the afternoon off so I could finish writing these plays. I completely scratched my previous drafts of the play (heretofore known as both Into Eternity and Shadowpaint), rewrote it from the ground up, and dubbed it Alchemy, which fits in a lot better with the changes ...
[Cross-posted from Top of the Mountains.]
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 completely sold out. At the end they tallied all the audience votes for ...
Back in May, I decided to start digitizing the Welsh Book of Mormon (Llyfr Mormon), dubbing the endeavor Project Cymru. It was going along pretty well for a while, but then I got bogged down over the summer and kind of forgot about the project. I did ...
