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[Cross-posted from Top of the Mountains.] My play Snowstorm opened last night. With my last play I went to several of the rehearsals and runthroughs, so I had a fairly good idea walking into the premiere how the show would go. Not so this time. I could've gone to ...
I checked out some books on Hebrew and Arabic today, and as I was leafing through the Hebrew one at dinner (Hebrew for Biblical Interpretation by Arthur Walker-Jones), I realized something: I really want to publish language books. Both books about the languages and texts in the languages. You see, ...
After a two-month break, this afternoon I finally started taking some photos again: They're on Flickr, as usual. I think what I may need to do to resurrect my passion for photography is spend more time Photoshopping them afterwards, to go for a more ...
My seven-year-old brother and I have been exchanging stories via Gmail for the past few weeks -- basically, he wants me to send him stories, but I cunningly told him I'd only send him each installment if he'd send me something in return. ;) Well, his cat got run over by ...
In my attempt (successful, so far) to avoid finishing Shadowpaint, I worked a little on The Girl in the Mirror (a Gothic narrative poem), and I realized something that I'd sort of noticed before but hadn't paid much attention to: without external constraints, I naturally gravitate toward fantasy and ...
Today while thinking about revising Shadowpaint (my latest play, which I'm submitting on Tuesday), I realized that I'm scared. Afraid to finish revising it, because I'm afraid it won't be good. I've already written seven of the eleven or twelve pages, even, and yet still I'm up against ...
Over the President's Day holiday, I designed a new blog called Mormon Renaissance, the brainchild of some of my colleagues: To quote from the sidebar blurb on the site: Mormon Renaissance seeks to perfect the craft, critical discernment, and the quality of Mormon artistic ...
After spreading myself a bit thin with a few too many blogs, I've decided to consolidate some of them into this new blog. It's about creativity and the things I make -- writing, design, art, music, programming, you name it. And as of now it renders my old ...