Accomplishment chart, 3/31 - 4/6

Writing- scribbling for Mrs. Hawking part 5 ( Read more... )

More drafting for my planned deep-dive exegesis on one of my all-time favorite films, Who Framed Roger Rabbit. This is rough, disorganized, and unedited, and I will polish it up once I have a fuller draft, but here's some of the work I did on one of my favorite parts of the analysis-- the surprisingly sophisticated workings of Roger Rabbit as a ( Read more... )

This is excerpted from my upcoming article in Game Wrap Magazine, volume 2-- "No battle plan survives contact with the enemy" about the tension between narrative design and player autonomy. I pulled this part out because it's applies strucutre in all storytelling forms, not just larps.

One of the tools storytellers use to shape narrative is ( Read more... )

Just doing some early drafting of my essay analyzing Who Framed Roger Rabbit. This is all rough and somewhat cursory-- I may want to reorder some of this later. But I'm working out some of the stuff I want to talk about now, specifically how it relates to the conventions of film noir.


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New blog entry on Mrshawking.com!

"How we built our prop victrola"


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I am so busy. I am so very, very busy.

Accomplishment chart, 3/24 - 3/30

Writing
- plotting for Mrs. Hawking part 4
- drafting for prose project
- drafting for WFRR exegesis
- 3 LiveJournal entries

Theater- attended 1 WCSF '17 organizers' meeting ( Read more... )

Oh, wow. I was going to complain about how little I wish to do actual work today, as I would much rather work on my exegesis of Who Framed Roger Rabbit, which I've been chipping away at here and there for several months now. But I just got some statistical information about the student evaluations handed in for my three classes last semester. I ( Read more... )

I am reading the play Fences by August Wilson in preparation to teach it in my lit class, and I never realized before how important the integration of baseball is to the backstory of it. I am fascinated by that particular part of history, perhaps weirdly so, since I don't really care about sports in any other capacity. But I've always thought the ( Read more... )

In the last several years of my becoming more of a serious writing, I've developed a particular system to think about it. I've found that whenever approaching a craft, it helps my brain a lot to think of it in terms of a series of concepts with specific definitions associated with certain purposes. I believe that crucial to understanding how ( Read more... )

Accomplishment chart, 3/17 - 3/23

Writing
- plotting for Mrs. Hawking part 4
- edited scene 2.5a for Vivat Regina, version 5
- drafting for prose project
- submitted Hood pilot to Bluecat Screenwriting Competition 2017
- 4 LiveJournal entries

Theater- attended 1 WCSF '17 organizers' meeting ( Read more... )