What if Invisible Magic brought together The Swimming AND Greenpoint Ghost Story??
Monday, December 31, 2018
Friday, November 30, 2018
Wednesday, October 31, 2018
Elyse, Ntozake and Maria
Three Giant Women of theater have passed away in the space of just a few days.
An influential director.
A playwright of African American women and expanded territories, opening her arms to inclusion of multiple communities. (For Black Girls who have Considered Suicide when the Rainbow is Enuf, a Choreopoem)
A playwright of Hispanic women, opening the theater walls to audiences to Fefu and her Friends. Staging was nontraditional, taking people beyond a stage to different areas -seeing scenes in various order.
The world is better for them all.
An influential director.
A playwright of African American women and expanded territories, opening her arms to inclusion of multiple communities. (For Black Girls who have Considered Suicide when the Rainbow is Enuf, a Choreopoem)
A playwright of Hispanic women, opening the theater walls to audiences to Fefu and her Friends. Staging was nontraditional, taking people beyond a stage to different areas -seeing scenes in various order.
The world is better for them all.
Ntozake Shange at the Dodge Poetry Festival, Sunday, October 21, 2018
Sunday, September 30, 2018
Hallway of Fog
On my way to work, I had a series of AMAZING visions that I want to print into the world.
Friday, August 31, 2018
Tuesday, July 31, 2018
Love Made Visible, The Barter Theater
Invisible Magic IS Love.
And "Love made visible" is the deeper mission of the Barter Theater. When farmers couldn't offer money, they could offer things to pay for tickets. And then the actors got fed.
A way of living as close to the bone as you can, and being happy, truly happy, in a circle of friends who are in the same situation.
Much like the Fringe Theater, or all theater.
And "Love made visible" is the deeper mission of the Barter Theater. When farmers couldn't offer money, they could offer things to pay for tickets. And then the actors got fed.
A way of living as close to the bone as you can, and being happy, truly happy, in a circle of friends who are in the same situation.
Much like the Fringe Theater, or all theater.
Saturday, June 30, 2018
Mutual Admiration Society
The BEST situations are around Mutual Admiration Societies.
It might not always be equitable, but it is important to come from a place of respect and enjoyment of the other person's talents. Winning an award, one should always be gracious and effusive in thanks.
Winning and maintaining friendships, it is important to determine comfort levels of communication, how to ensure that you've made a secure bond and how to keep it going.
Thursday, May 31, 2018
Monday, April 30, 2018
Falling Out and in Love with the Man(uscript)
Falling Out and in Love with the Man(uscript)
Sometimes it's good to be obsessed with your writing.
And then sometimes, it makes you sick with the intensity.
So it's good to be able to take a step back, and get back into your life. AND, you'd be amazed at how much easier it is to edit when you have a little perspective.
And then, when you get back into it, there's a lot of THERE there. Sure, trim away all the fat. Lots of crap, but now it's easier to let go of it.
And I'm sure it'll be a cycle. I need to get through this draft. And then, rinse, repeat.
I'll forget again. But I'll fall in love again.
Saturday, March 31, 2018
Readable Draft/I Never Finished one For you
I hope you are as fascinated by the novel writing process as I am.
I'm taking 2 classes (1 on Query Letters to Lit Agents and one on World Building in Fiction). Getting an editor lined up, workshopping one of the chapters. Very exciting.
My goal this month is a readable draft. I have the structure, and 250 pages of scenes, notes, and things to write. I want to send out the first 50 pages to my editor asap.
I've published several short stories and plays, but getting together a giant chunk of something (with a full time job plus travel) is tremendously difficult. But rewarding!
I'm taking 2 classes (1 on Query Letters to Lit Agents and one on World Building in Fiction). Getting an editor lined up, workshopping one of the chapters. Very exciting.
My goal this month is a readable draft. I have the structure, and 250 pages of scenes, notes, and things to write. I want to send out the first 50 pages to my editor asap.
I've published several short stories and plays, but getting together a giant chunk of something (with a full time job plus travel) is tremendously difficult. But rewarding!
Wednesday, February 28, 2018
EXTRAORDINARY LOVE
There are songs you can't stop listening to, and I want my past (2012) self, to think of my current/future self (2018).
To think of all the songs I had no idea of, the ones who were lying in wait for me.
Just hanging around, waiting for me to discover them.
To think of all the songs I had no idea of, the ones who were lying in wait for me.
Just hanging around, waiting for me to discover them.
Wednesday, January 31, 2018
The Force Which Makes Itself Known
There is Visible Magic.
Videos, photographs which come from time machines of cameras.
Computers are a kind of magic. Anything going on behind the scenes, which we do not have access to.
Religion might be magic, or the magic of ritual, or the distraction of ritual. Maybe each person brings their own magic.
Invisible Magic works on people as an unseen, and unfelt force. Nobody is trying to trick anyone, because here you cannot be tricked.
You can only trust a feeling. And dive inside of the feeling. Use it against the dragons of sadness, of depression, of fear and anxiety. The things which try to pull you apart. And for which you have no power to fight them. Take this Invisible Magic and run with it-see how far it takes you.
Videos, photographs which come from time machines of cameras.
Computers are a kind of magic. Anything going on behind the scenes, which we do not have access to.
Religion might be magic, or the magic of ritual, or the distraction of ritual. Maybe each person brings their own magic.
Invisible Magic works on people as an unseen, and unfelt force. Nobody is trying to trick anyone, because here you cannot be tricked.
You can only trust a feeling. And dive inside of the feeling. Use it against the dragons of sadness, of depression, of fear and anxiety. The things which try to pull you apart. And for which you have no power to fight them. Take this Invisible Magic and run with it-see how far it takes you.
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