Keep Pushing Forward
Got a rejection of Henry Moore is Melting today. Also dropped 40 query letters for one of my screenplays in the mail.
It’s Friday, so I give you this.
I know this isn’t a reaction gif, but I felt like it would be appreciated anyway. :)
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After a while, the characters I’m writing begin to feel real to me. That’s when I know I’m heading in the right direction.
—Alice Hoffman (via booklust)
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Everyone’s a Little Bit Racist
On the bus today, I overheard a fellow (Caucasian) playwright complaining to her companion about how Canadians are actually racist, but they just won’t admit it.
How did she know?
This theater company in Toronto did a reading of one of her scripts. There was a part in the script about how Canadians were being racist towards this one Native tribe and the actors in the reading were like “we’re not actually racist towards this one Native tribe”.
What was the name of the tribe that she was accusing Canadians of being racist towards in the play that she wrote?
She couldn’t remember.
(Whatever, right? I mean, those Native tribes, they’re all the same and everything anyway…)
Really, though, I can’t even…*facepalm*
Today marks the 20th anniversary of my career as a playwright. On May 25, 1993, my very first play “A Crime in a Rhyme” had it’s very first production at the Children’s Theatre of Western Springs!
Poster for the Third Annual One Minute Play Festival Chicago - featuring 2 plays by yours truly.
When someone makes a musical reference and you don’t get it
The composer for my musical does this a lot and I am, in fact, deeply shamed.
Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there’ll always be better writers than you and there’ll always be smarter writers than you. There will always be people who are much better at doing this or doing that—but you are the only you… There are better writers than me out there, there are smarter writers, there are people who can plot better—there are all those kinds of things, but there’s nobody who can write a Neil Gaiman story like I can.
—Neil Gaiman (via writingquotes)
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