Thursday 17 May 2012 - Filed under Announcements + Breadcrumbs + Plays
I can now officially say that I’ve started working on the revised version with the intention of having a fully completed draft by the end of the summer. (Thanks, Seattle crew!)
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Friday 11 May 2012 - Filed under Announcements + Breadcrumbs + Plays
Meant to post this from May 7th:
“Breadcrumbs” Play first table reading happened! Lots of fun and good feedback to get the creative juices going. Many many thanks to Jill, Teri, Beth, Kay, Q and Alex (as double-duty)!
Thank you thank you thank you! (and yes, more to come after I focus on other things…)
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Saturday 5 May 2012 - Filed under Announcements + Breadcrumbs + Plays
YEA!!!! I just sent off the script for the table reading on Monday. I feel like I’ve got my mental life back — for the moment anyway.
And ugh, it’s already time to write my column for the Blade’s June’s issue. Out of one frying pan……
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Sunday 15 April 2012 - Filed under Announcements + Breadcrumbs + Plays
So I sent a preliminary table reading packet to Jill: character sketches, brief synopsis and unfinished script so that her friends can get a feel for what they’re in for. Basically a lesbian date play.
With the deadline of May 7th for the table reading, I am definitely feeling the needed panic to get into the creative frame of mind. As I told Jill, this has proven to be the most bipolar writing experience for me in that I’m doubting almost every line I’m writing (whereas I don’t feel that way in writing my columns or novel – style fiction.)
Just got to bite the bullet and keep picking away at it. Luckily the characters are robust enough that they’ve started to write their own dialogue, which is always a good sign in my experience.
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Sunday 15 April 2012 - Filed under Active Voice + Column + Photos
www.bladecalifornia.com
Celebrating the milestone 20th Anniversary for the magazine! (And yes, I was involved in year 1!)
My own content:
Active Voice column (p 21): “Fair Disclosure” – How I hired a design firm to create a logo for me and received what I thought was homophobic discrimination
Snapped (p34): Photos from Wonder Con 2012 in Anaheim that have turned out to be surprisingly popular for the magazine.
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Friday 6 April 2012 - Filed under Announcements + Breadcrumbs + Plays
Starting to tackle this one full-steam ahead with my deadline for the first table reading now a month away. Nothing like a deadline looming to get the creative juices going.
I was right to change the title from the original novella “Deseo” because it’s definitely a different story (though the essence is the same). There are actually new characters (as lesbian couple!), new plot points and a different spin on the main characters.
Despite the bad circumstances of starting the project, which probably led to my avoidance of working on it, I’m now actually energized by the challenge!
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Friday 9 March 2012 - Filed under Announcements
No, I haven’t fallen off of the face of the Earth. Quite far from it.
What I haven’t publicly announced yet is a huge, regular project that I’ve taken on a couple of weeks ago that would seem insane given everything else I’m already committed to. However, there is a method to my madness. And madness it is…
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Friday 9 March 2012 - Filed under Active Voice + Blade California Magazine + LGBT Media
It’s now online at Blade California on page 22.
Titled “The Other Romantic Taboo”, this is the (for me) surprising moments of romantic racism that overshadows homophobia.
Also, Last Page (p 48) has the official pic for my Xena Con coverage with a blurb of what you missed out on if you weren’t there!
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Tuesday 31 January 2012 - Filed under Active Voice + Blade California Magazine + Column
It’s now online at Blade California on page 20.
Titled “Getting Physical”, this is the rather humbling story about what it means to show that being physically fit is all relative to the circumstances.
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Tuesday 31 January 2012 - Filed under LGBT Media + Movie
Summary:
The tale of a 19th century woman in Ireland who has spent most of her life impersonating a male waiter in order to survive.
My Thoughts (with potential spoilers!):
I didn’t need to know about Academy Award nominations before committing myself to seeing this. Glenn Close in drag? Of course!
So I saw it with my gay best buddies Nico and Rachel. And we collectively agree that it’s a very worthwhile movie. Nico laughed at my description of it as “a charming film about women being practical.”
As for whether it will win an Oscar, I don’t think so given everything else it’s competing against. But it’s worth the recognition that it already got.
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