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“Every opportunity is attached to a person. Opportunities do not float like clouds in the sky. They’re attached to people. If you’re looking for an opportunity — including one that has a financial payoff — you’re really looking for a person.” ~Ben Casnocha
I love deadlines. Deadlines spur me me to do my work. They urge me on to the finish. I deeply enjoy procrastinating, too, but having a deadline helps me make sure that I get the work done. My tendency is to be an Obliger, and I need an external accountability mechanism. More about the Four Tendencies here. You don’t need …
BY REGINALD GIBBONS The thick-walled room’s cave-darkness,cool in summer, soothesby saying, This is the truth, not the tautcicada-strummed daylight.Rest here, out of the flame—the thick air’sstirred by the fan’s fourslow-moving spoons; under the house the stonehas its feet in deep water.Outside, even the sun god, dressed in this lifeas a lizard, abruptly riseson stiff legs and descends blasé toward the shadows.
One area of collaboration involves knowing *where you are* in the decision making process. There are three distinct phases that lead to a decision: Opening, Narrowing (aka Evaluating), and Closing. Usually, partners will be better at one or another of these phases. In Opening, you are brainstorming, perhaps researching, thinking of all the things that could go into your project. …
Collaboration is extremely vital to making theater, and, sometimes, to writing for theater. I have collaborated with others on regular plays and on musicals, and learned a lot about how to navigate what aspects can be difficult about such partnerships. One of the most important things is to have a solid foundation: a similar aesthetic or creative vision. The more …
This Writer’s Symposium interview with Alice Walker is satisfying and enlightening, despite the terrible interviewer. Highly recommended. “I was born to do this,” Alice explains. “My work is medicine.”
This looks like fun: starts June 1! Learn with London Playwrights is a series of podcast style lectures, resources, and workshops covering all things theatre related! Want to find out more about your favourite musical? Fancy a discussion on Fleabag? Or want to brush up on Brecht? The Learn with London Playwrights series is for everyone! Maybe your background isn’t …
The Mediums It took a week for us to stop hearing the voices.Although they had been our constant companionsfor years by then, a steady stream of chatter,it reached the point where they became unbearable.Each message had become a death to us. Just a littleto start with, soft like the twitter of birds,not too intrusive perhaps, but then more insistentby the …
I watched a script reading recently that really illustrated the need for an emotional journey in a play. I believe you can make a satisfying film without one, but for a play, emotional arcs are required. Peter Craig, novelist and screenwriter, says this: “Per Aristotle, while we may still think of a story having three acts — Beginning, Middle, End …
By Sandra Cisneros If peaches had armssurely they would hold one anotherin their peach sleep. And if peaches had feetit is sure they wouldnudge one anotherwith their soft peachy feet. And if peaches couldthey would sleepwith their dimpled headon the other’seach to each. Like you and me. And sleep and sleep.