With the exception of three plays, all Shakespeare’s plots were borrowed from others – his focus was language and character, apparently. I was thinking, for my next story I’ll borrow a fairy tale plot and write it as a small play in iambic pentameter (blank verse – I’m tired of trying to rhyme). After doing …

I’m reading bits of lots of books, and today I started reading the Arden Shakespeare version of King Henry VI, part 1. This is one of his first plays, and I’m wanting to read through the canon in about chronological order so I can see how his skill developed over time. Anyway, it’s clear from …

I posted my latest YT story this evening, glad to be done with that. I’ve been fighting that for 4 weeks, and now it’s done, and least for a while until I revisit and revise. My thinking is to just make these 85% good and move on – I’ll revisit them all when my skill …

I’m a few days away from posting another story on the DN YT channel, and it’s (partly) about the magic of finding one’s passion – or of it finding you. I realized just this evening that, in college and thereafter, I had wanted to express something meaningful within, but I didn’t have anything to express …