Saturday was crazy! An awesome sort of crazy, even if it totally kicked my ass. (Yeah, it did.) My day started with a workshop. A local theatre offers occasional master classes, and that day they held an audition boot camp. Which was exactly as advertised. Intense and amazing, and I was more than a little […]
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New Play Festival
In addition to the overflow of ideas in September, some bizarre part of me thought it would be an excellent idea to sign up for the 24 Hour New Play Festival. As a writer. This is how it works: a group of awesomely insane people get together on a Friday night and split into teams […]
New Project(s)
Happy October! How did that happen? Life since August . . . Well the rest of August – post-Dracula, that is – became a casualty of burnout. But September? Oh, September. Four shiny new novels have been dancing through my head. Yes, FOUR. Plus a few older ideas reminding me of their particular ass kicking […]
The Devil’s Puppet Show
Oh, Internet. I have so much to tell you! Potential theatre-related opportunities are cropping up in the strangest (and best) of places. They may amount to nothing, but just the experience of trying will be priceless. Dracula has been insanely popular. Even our “slow” nights draw decently sized audiences. An iconic story like Dracula performed […]
Why I Haven’t Posted
Confidence. Once upon a time, I had none. High school theatre helped. It gave me the courage to explore, to try on different personas until I found a combination that fit right. College for me was more about the people and the experience than the academics. Funny, since I went so deeply in debt for […]
Update (The Highlights)
Life since my last update: My youngest sister had her baby! She then got married Which happened just a few days after my uncle’s funeral And while I was besieged by The Plague, requiring that I communicate via whiteboard. I have not been writing much (which has a lot to do with the lack of […]
Of Birthdays, Books, And Fun
After a few weekends in a row of scheduled things, these last two days have been fantastic. Maybe I’m bragging, but I want to share this, anyway. You don’t have to read it. Feel free to walk away. Close the tab. No? Still here? Then no bitching allowed. Saturday was unexpectedly beautiful. Weather-wise and otherwise. Got […]
Don’t Put Away Childish Things
I’m freaking out. Just a little. See, last night, I submitted a short story. You know, right after I finished that damned novel draft. That was exciting. I haven’t been posting because I’ve been rushing like mad to get those done. That, and the drama festival. The kids were fantastic, the shows were generally amazing, […]
Ice! Fire! Lobster!
Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. This Robert Frost poem — at least, these first two lines of it — have been stuck in my head off and on for at least a year now. Now, I finally have an opportunity to use it! In my last post, I […]
Happy Turkey Day!
So it’s Thanksgiving here in the US. Quite appropriately, we have had a giant flock of wild turkeys parading between our house and the in-laws’. No sign of the gorgeous fox we saw the other day, though. Jumping on this holiday’s bandwagon, I have quite a lot to be thankful for right now. Friends and […]
Melissa Burkart 