I have reluctantly taken on a few more hours of tutoring this semester. I can really use the extra cash, for several reasons, not least of which because it's looking like I'll need to have some expensive dental surgery in the near future. Despite being told as recently as a couple years ago that they were fine, apparently my wisdom teeth are going ( Read more... )

Having a very hard time coming up with a coherent entry, yesterday and today. I tell myself to update my blog with SOMETHING even if I don't have anything brilliant to say, but this week I'm struggling to come up with ANYTHING at all.

It's been busy. Basically I dove back into everything the minute I got home from helping Bernie move into his new ( Read more... )

Tonight at 7pm you can sign up for games at this year's Festival of the Larps at Brandeis University!

This is the totally free weekend-long larp convention in Waltham! It runs from the evening of Friday, April 28th, to the afternoon of Sunday, April 30th!
The schedule of signups is as follows ( Read more... )

New gallery on Mrshawking.com!

Photography by Annushka Munch
Costume design by Jennifer Giorno
Makeup design by Jessicalee Skary
Set design by Bernie Gabin
Production design by Phoebe Roberts


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One somewhat controversial thing I believe about writing is that it's very good to be able to imitate other writers' styles. Other writers and scholars thereof might disagree, failing to see any practical application for it, and protesting that it's more important to refine and develop your own unique voice rather than trying to copy someone else's ( Read more... )

Accomplishment chart, 3/10 - 3/16

Writing
- 1 LiveJournal entry
- edited Frasier spinoff pilot scenes into Stranger House ten-minute play

Theater
- submitted Stranger House ten-minute play for consideration for performance with Theatre@First's Festival@First
- had 1 blocking rehearsal for Nathaniel scenes of Vivat Regina

Teaching- graded 12 ( Read more... )

This weekend I came up to Alexandria, Virginia to help Bernie move into his new apartment. He got a place just a five-minute walk from the patent office where he works, a small but very nice one-bedroom place in a fancy apartment building. I like it very much; it's a real grownup place, and a real change of pace from everything in Boston that all ( Read more... )

Accomplishment chart, 3/3 - 3/9

Writing
- drafting for prose project
- broke 10,000 words on prose project
- applied to 1 full-time writer job
- applied to 1 writing fellowship
- interviewed for writing job
- 1 LiveJournal entry

Website
- posted 1 blog entry on Mrshawking.com

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

The most effective way of producing writing for me has always been the "vomit draft" method-- or, if you prefer a less disgusting description, the process by which you just make yourself write some garbage, no matter how badly it's coming out, until you have some semblance of a beginning, middle, and end such that you can by some measure call the ( Read more... )

New post on Mrshawking.com!

"Cast lists for Watch City Steampunk Festival '17 shows!"

We have our current casts for our next round of shows at the Watch City Steampunk Festival 2017, Mrs. Hawking parts 2 and 3, Vivat Regina and Base Instruments!


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