More Hollywood Feedback
This is more for me—to keep me motivated—than anything else. It also amuses me. My dad asked to read my Nine Days manuscript (which I’m targeting to agents this summer) and sent the following note: After having recently reread The Great Gatsby because I saw a copy at one of those free library...
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Vancouver and Hollywood
Couple of quick hits: 1) I’ve been invited to participate in the Vancouver Story Slam on June 8th. This will be remote (unfortunately?) but I’m looking forward to it and am getting a story together for it now. 2) Been working on an old manuscript called Nine Days Behind the Hollywood Sign, and received...
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The Pact gets Picked
The play I worked on this winter was picked as a finalist for the Hyde Park New Play Workshop this summer. I’m happy about this, and of course hope that I get to be part of the workshop – which is always impressive with a good cast and crew behind it. But I’ll go...
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Post-hair-ity*
*that’s supposed to be a play on the word posterity, but jokes are better when you have to explain them up front, so… Anyway, my hair is short again (thanks, kiddo!) but these are a few shots I took before it was hacked off. Why? Because my hair usually grows way out and up,...
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Columbus or Bust?
Sports is back! (Sports are back??) In the past few weeks, I’ve been invited to play a few games of tennis, there’s talk of getting a volleyball team together for some practice sessions soon, and I was recruited to play softball again this season. I’m taking it slow with softball, but the few practices...
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Jules Liam Fan Club
My kids and I were watching the historic upset of UCLA over Michigan the other night (UCLA making its way to the Final Four as an 11-seed, whoa) (March Madness, obvi) when I suddenly heard one of the guards referred to as Jules. Which is a pretty unusual name for a dude these days....
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New Play Exchange Shout-Out
So I joined NPX (New Play Exchange) a while back but didn’t do much with it at first. It’s kind of a lowkey form of playwriting social media, I guess. You post info about yourself and can upload plays and reviews and things too. A publicity tool. At some point I saw someone had...
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Winter to Spring to Summer 2021: Goal Check
Taking a look back at these goals I posted in November, how’d things work out… GOAL: Write a new experimental short play for The Fling the weekend of November 21st RESULT: Done. Actually wrote two plays. The first one was convoluted across multiple online platforms. I decided it was too messy and in the...
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Kiddo Brag
Each of the past 4 years, my oldest kid has been participating in a national cyber-security competition where they try to find flaws in various computer system platforms. His team has done a little better each year, and this year they made it to the national finals, the first Texas high school team to...
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