When Life gets in the way

30 Days of Development: Lindsay is writing every day for thirty days, and submitting every day for thirty days, and blogging about it every day for thirty days. Whew! Can she do it? Stay posted….
DAY FOUR

Writing: Spelling Bee Girl play, which is becoming about much more. Plays are all about questions and layers. Ask questions, [...]

Round and Round

30 Days of Development: Lindsay is writing every day for thirty days, and submitting every day for thirty days, and blogging about it every day for thirty days. Whew! Can she do it? Stay posted….
DAY THREE

Writing: The Spelling Bee Play. The Breakfast scene. Three times. 
Thoughts: I have limited time today, just enough to work [...]

The Flow.

30 Days of Development: Lindsay is writing every day for thirty days, and submitting every day for thirty days, and blogging about it every day for thirty days. Whew! Can she do it? Stay posted….
DAY TWO

Writing: Still at the Spelling Bee play, which just a week ago I questioned my decision to spend this time [...]

Day One: What is not a Theatrefolk play?

30 Days of Development: Lindsay is writing every day for thirty days, and submitting every day for thirty days, and blogging about it every day for thirty days. Whew! Can she do it? Stay posted…. 
DAY ONE
Writing: I recently completed a one act that made me go, ‘hmmmmm I think there’s more here.’ So my [...]

30 Days of Development

The past three months have been about a lot of things other than writing for me. All good things: a lot of data collection, promoting Shout!, actually enjoying a summer. (The problem with enjoying a summer is that you start to get rather panicky when it starts to disappear…) But writing has definitely taken a [...]

The Writing Process

I am currently reading Life of pi by Yann Martel. The opening establishes how the writer went off to India to try and finish a book, and it just wasn’t happening - great characters, wonderful story, no spark. He describes the realization as ’something soul-destroying.’ And then he mails the failed manuscript to a fictional [...]

Dinner Theater Play Reworked To Push Chicken Special

The great satirical magazine The Onion printed a cute little piece about a dinner theatre changing the text of Death of a Salesman.
Read it here.