A while back, I wrote a play. I was in conversations with a theater company about producing this play when the world shut down. A lot of things happened after that. You know what I’m talking about. Now, theaters wants to produce plays with a message, plays that say something about the world we liveContinue reading “tell the story”
Category Archives: writing
recent musings
It’s been a busy couple of weeks. A few highlights:
on being the portal
I’ve written about how the best art acts a portal, transporting us somewhere else entirely. Be it a story that takes us on a journey with its characters or a painting that swallows us whole, we engage with these works to get outside of ourselves. But what if we’re the portals? I’m revisiting Steven Pressfield’sContinue reading “on being the portal”
finding the medium
I’m currently working on a novel high school kids in revolt and a play about comic book writers building a universe–two different stories with different characters, engaging with completely different worlds. A friend asked this week, “how do you determine which stories are books, which ones are plays, and which one would be movies?” GreatContinue reading “finding the medium”
hitchhiking
I absolutely loved Marc Maron’s recent interview with Neil Gaiman. While I’ve never been a huge Gaiman fan, I found myself enamored with his insights into comic fandom, TV production, and his writing process. My favorite bit though, is when Gaiman describes the process of beginning his Sandman comics, and how despite having the endContinue reading “hitchhiking”
thoughts from a detective
In a recent episode of The Moment with Brian Koppelman, writer-director John Hamburg (Along Came Polly, I Love You, Man) touched on a few things that I’ve been turning over in my mind lately. Referencing advice from his therapist, Hamburg says of writing, “Be a detective, not a judge.” I’ve been watching a lot ofContinue reading “thoughts from a detective”
psychic scars
A friend of mine is studying to be a screenwriter. The other night, we had a conversation about her graduate program. She’s in her mid-thirties, while most of her classmates are in their early twenties, a disparity she claims is obvious in their writing. Much of the work her classmates produce is imaginative , butContinue reading “psychic scars”
unlimited freedom
In a recent interview on obscurity, Austin Kleon had this to say about unlimited freedom when creating: …obscurity can be this great gift. You can experiment. It’s a kind of freedom. Now, unlimited freedom can be very paralyzing, too. Freedom is not necessarily the best thing ever for art; there’s a tension between freedom andContinue reading “unlimited freedom”
some assembly required
Maya Angelou famously said, “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” I’ve been feeling this agony a lot lately. I simply have too many ideas and must often decide what’s worth putting on paper and what isn’t. After finishing Oliver Burkeman’s Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, I’m especiallyContinue reading “some assembly required”
what I’ve been up to
It’s been a little while. Things have been crazy for me lately and as a result, things like posting here have fallen by the wayside. Here’s a list of things I’ve been up to and a few observations I’ve made: playing in a church band Ever notice how musicians refer to pieces of sheet musicContinue reading “what I’ve been up to”
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