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The Benefits of Poetry for Professionals
The Benefits of Poetry for Professionals We should all be reading more, but the Harvard Business Review says that we shouldn’t neglect poetry. “For one, poetry teaches us to wrestle with and simplify complexity.” Read the linked blog post for more reasons to add poetry to our reading list. Nessa O’Mahony would be happy, too.
The Rise of the Demolisticle: 40 signs you can publish any old crap nowadays as long as it’s well-targeted
The Rise of the Demolisticle: 40 signs you can publish any old crap nowadays as long as it’s well-targeted Is micro-targeting the future of journalism, too? Slate looks at BuzzFeed’s headlines: “He aptly compares BuzzFeed’s divide-and-conquer approach to the microtargeting that politicians have been doing for years, appealing to people’s identities to win their support. The […]
Acting like a lady
For me, my audience is largely those back home. To give them some insight into what I’m doing in Armagh and to inspire future students to want to study here. The majority of the things I learned while in here in Armagh I had no idea of back home, the troubles, the murals and the […]
Writing Tips from Joyce Carol Oates
Writing Tips from Joyce Carol Oates Author Joyce Carol Oates gave writing advice through Twitter today. 10 simple and straightforward tips from the 75-year-old author. You can follow her @joycecaroloates. #1 and #10 are the same: “Write your heart out.”
Beauty Queen//Ma.
I gravitated toward Martin McDonagh’s “Beauty Queen of Leenane.” The text satisfied the ugly in me. You know? When your brain thinks astonishingly morbid thoughts and you’re like “WTF Brain?! Why did you think that?” But you do. And it’s an arena to be recognized. And in “Beauty Queen’s” case, embraced. The story relays a […]
Right on, Write on.
OHMYGOD. This morning, we staged my play and it was other worldly. Honestly. It’s difficult to articulate the sensations I felt as Terri directed and Alison and Joan starred in “Ma.” This piece was excruciating for me to write. The more we work with it, the more comfortable I get with the material. The work […]
Some people are too stupid to work iPhones
I don’t think all people with iPhones are competent enough to report a story. Simple as that. I think they can sometimes contribute, but reporting is a skill that must be learned, presenting information in an unbiased, clear way is not something that you can just decide to type up on a note in your […]
Here It Comes…
We’re in rehearsals here in Armagh, and my ten-minute play is finally being put into action. So how does that make me feel? A bit like what I imagine a new father feels like when the hospital staff is handling his baby. A little frightened that someone’s going to drop the kid on his head. […]
ækt-oʊrs
Alright, after the salt that was yesterday’s post, it’s time to talk about something I love to do: acting! Why do I love acting (and, by extension, the rehearsal process)? Let me confess something. I’m not good at acting. I’m not good at maintaining a dialect. I’m not good at keeping a straight face. I’m […]
The Prooooocess
So far, so good! I really like the rehearsal process as a playwrite because it allows me to see my work in different ways. Everyone has different input because they all experience it differently and that’s really awesome! The entire process has been exciting but it does feel good to be at a point where […]
