"I felt a familiar jealousy of boys. I didn't want what they had, but I wished that I wanted what they wanted; it seemed like happiness was easier for them."
-Prep, Curtis Sittenfeld

( ACCEPTING DEFEAT )

So, I've taken it upon myself to read as many books as possible this summer. I love literature, all kinds. I've been reading fiction and history and science and mythology. I'm currently reading Spook by Mary Roach. I'm about half way through and it's been great ( Read more... )

Tonight I believe that coincidence can almost be fate.

This is something I've been working on for awhile now. I've been calling it the soundtrack of my life, but it turned into something a little different. It's a tracklist but embedded in the soundtrack are also quotes from plays and passages from novels that have inspired me to grow and feel. It might also include a list. It also includes markers in ( Read more... )

I want to write another play. For it, I need a list of Things Children Do Not UnderstandI have started one, but I would like help coming up with more things that could be on this list. A great way to communicate to an audience best is to come at something from more than one angle ( Read more... )

I was going to write this fun lj entry. I had it all planned out in my head but then on the way home from the bus, I GOT HIT BY A CAR. Take that, Zoe.

so many sheep i quit counting
sleepless and embarrassed about the way that i feel
trying to make mole hills out of mountains
building base camp at the bottom of a really big deal

In Playwriting today, I was supposed to write about what I fear the most. But in the process of trying to explain myself in writing, it dawned on me that, to me, there is a distinction between being scared and being afraid. To me, being afraid involves a little more anxiety and being scared is a more physical state of being ( Read more... )

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