I started this blog as a challenge to make forty item lists for the forty weeks leading up to my fortieth birthday. That was all I was thinking about at the time. I didn't expect that I'd want to post anything beyond the weekly lists. I was incredibly wrong though. I didn't even make it … Continue reading What’s in a blog name?
Tag: Writing
A few weeks ago I wrote a post called "40 really awful writing prompts that no writer should use." At least one reader decided to take on the challenging of my rather bizarre writing prompts and decided to take on not one, not two, but three of my awful writing prompts in one short story. … Continue reading Pickles & Cobain: A reader response to my 40 awful writing prompts
Writer's block can be frustrating. When some writers don't know what to write they turn to writing prompts, little stubs that can be used as a starting point for their own ideas. Since I haven't made a 40 item list in a while I decided to help all the frustrated writers out there by making … Continue reading 40 really awful writing prompts that no writer should use
I started blogging because I no longer had time to write plays. Even though blogging may seem like an ideal fit for someone who has spent most of her lifetime writing and working on computers I held a long disdain for blogging. (I even included "blog" in my list of the least sexy words.) But … Continue reading Five reasons why blogging is like theatre
2012 was the first year since 2003 that I did not have a play produced. This is not a random bit of bad luck. 2012 was also the first year since 2003 that I did not send out any plays to theatres or festivals. I also wasn’t writing anything new. A year without a play … Continue reading When is a playwright not a playwright? When she’s a mom.
Kim Z. Dale 