Archive: Writing category
Ever since discovering Cory Doctorow and finding out (to my delight) that he releases all of his books under a Creative Commons license...and still sells books...
I'm a writer, and this 20 great things about dating a writer post completely nails it. That's me, folks. I should print this out and give it to girls when I ask them out. :P
The second day of the forum on children's literature was just as good as the first. I think this writeup will be a little more abbreviated than the last one, however, since I'm short on time.
A couple weeks ago I was reading Shannon Hale's blog, and she mentioned that she would be keynoting at the upcoming UVU Forum on Children's Literature.
I love index cards. For years I've been carrying them around in my front pocket to manage my to-do list, and recently I discovered a new use for them: writing novels.
Every time I've tried to start writing a novel (excepting NaNoWriMo in 2007) or full-length play, I'd bail out a couple chapters in, thinking I couldn't fill a whole book or evening with whatever it was I was writing. And I was right.
See, I had an epiphany earlier this ...
This weekend I participated in the 2nd annual Student Slam with the Theatre Arts Conservatory up in Salt Lake (a high school for theatre students), and it was awesome. There were five of us playwrights (three from BYU and two from Salt Lake), five directors, and five actors ...
Welcome to 2009. As has become a tradition (see 2006, 2007, and 2008), here's a short recap of 2008 along with how I did on my resolutions, followed by my 2009 resolutions.
In 2008, I wrote 368 posts on this blog (plus another dozen or two on ...
Just got back from closing night of my show. While it wasn't perfect (more on that in a second), I'm happy with how it turned out. Of all my plays, this one ("To Love and to Cherish") had some of my favorite lines. That's probably because it's ...
As I've been slowing getting back to inbox zero, a remembrance of things past has shimmered up to the surface: I love long letters. When I was younger -- in my heyday, if I can call it that :P -- I had tons of pen pals and would write ...
