I'm annoyed with Script Frenzy right now, because I thought it would be easy and it most emphatically isn't. I thought I could get through it without planning and I most emphatically can't. I thought that writing a 20k play would be like writing a third of a 60k novel and it most emphatically isn't. In short, I was cocky going in, and now I'm ( Read more... )

Last night...was good. When I got home around 11:30 I was tempted to turn on the computer and write up a journal entry right then, so that I could capture it in all its glory. But then I realized that nothing would do it justice. Really, as much as we may try to preserve things with photographs or with writing or with video, in the end these only ( Read more... )

So, a few more things about the play I'll be writing in June. So far, I'm busy getting the characters and the setting togther.

The concept for the play is that five writers who attend UC Berkeley meet for the first time when they all end up in the same application-based creative writing class. They're all very different people, and the play is ( Read more... )

I feel like I need to write something profound right now.  I just finished my last IB test ever, and I won't think about them until next July when I get the results.  It's a glorious day, and I'm sitting in a beam of sunlight that pierces my window, and I'm feeling a breeze on the skin of my arms, and the sun is so bright and at such an angle that ( Read more... )

Okay, so I've had a couple of people ask me about what I want for my birthday...I hate having to answer that question because I either don't know or I don't want to sound greedy.  Honestly, I don't have a problem with gift cards for anything that I actually use.  Books, clothes, whatever -- I'm never going to complain if I get to pick out my own ( Read more... )

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Corinne and I are going to write a movie together during the month of June.  We're not sure what it's about yet, though she says it's a cross between The Motorcycle Diaries and Garden State (we are not yet sure how this will be achieved).

Also, on my own I am writing a stage play, that will contain ( Read more... )