meme from Patrick

I have been tagged by Patrick. Read Patrick's post here. What I have to do: So, here's the challenge: make a list of five strengths that you possess as a writer/artist. It's not really bragging, it's an honest assessment (forced upon you by this darn meme). Please resist the urge to enumerate your weaknesses, or even mention them in contrast to each strong point you list. Tag four other writers or artists whom you'd like to see share their strengths. 1. I can write comedy without too much effort. 2. Sometimes I can write a scene that will break my own heart. 3. There are times when the dialogue finds a rhythm that feels like music. 4. I can make worlds. 5. I try to stretch what I can do and make plays that are different from previous plays. Wow. that was hard. I tag Freeman, Malachy, James, and Callaghan.

cheap tix

under 35? 20 dollar tix at roundabout.

http://www.moxiethemaven.com/2007/09/roundabouts-got-cheap-tickets.html

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/110968.html

praise of talent or intelligence

Great post from Patrick

"Persistence and resilience may be the most important qualities to
develop within ourselves if we seek long and productive lives as
artists."

http://writinglife3.blogspot.com/2007/09/beware-of-praise-of-your-talent.html

Dear Bloggers

I challenge you
to create
as i did below
a picture poem

quickly and without too much thought

and then come back here and let me know
that you did so.

It's quiet.



something rumbling in the distance. Some soft music. Some something,



Waiting is the hardest part.



"Sitting still is for chumps and the physically disabled."

That's just how she expresses herself.



We will wait. Quietly. And see what comes. Tomorrow perhaps we will see. Or in a month or in a year or in ten.

Thanks for dropping by.

nytr fundraiser

http://blindsquirrels.blogspot.com/2007/09/fundraiser-fundraiser-im-going-to.html

Apply now

Hi Playwrights, The Ars Nova Play Group, of which I am a member is now accepting applications for this next year. http://arsnovanyc.com/play-group/ They are a great group and you get to hang out in the penthouse and eat pizza and drink beer for 2 years and maybe get a reading or two and definitely get something up at the end of the year project. I had a great time last year. It's a good group of people.

a poor player on theater education and lies

http://www.apoorplayer.net/blog/2007/09/07/theatre-education-part-2-the-big-lies/

h/t isaac

http://parabasis.typepad.com/blog/

Stalker or Heart Stopper or something unknown

I have a screenplay which has been sitting around since the 30th unread by me. I’m going to have a reading with some actors next Monday. I know it will need some more work. My first draft is always underwritten and I wrote this fairly quickly. Not quickly for a play but quickly for a screenplay…for me. Those screenplays are killers. Now I’m in that in between time where I’m dying to start writing something. (especially because writing the screenplay was work and I want to play with something…like a play now) So I’m itchy, but I don’t have enough information to write a new play yet. I could go work on the novel, but that will be like work too. I could write some short stuff but that feels like a waste of time and energy. In the meantime, I’m reading Nobody’s Fool by Richard Russo and am loving it. He’s so good. It makes me want to go back to the novel. If only a novel didn’t take 3 to 4 times longer to write than a play. But really all I want to do is write a new play. Although this will never lead to financial solvency like a novel or a screenplay or a musical might. Maybe I should be writing a musical. I feel in some ways completely free to do whatever I want when I’m writing a play. Because I know so well what a play is and what rules I can break. But maybe I should be thinking how to write the play that a big regional or NY theatre will do. I wonder what that is. Anyway. Back to your usual programming.

mark your calendar

On Monday night, October 22, the New York Theater Review hosts the 2nd-ever Fall fundraiser at Manhattan's Performance Space 122!