Have you ever had this nagging thing that you knew was wrong, but you couldn’t figure out what? For the last two years, I’ve known that the props work wasn’t satisfying, but I didn’t realize how much I missed the world of puppetry until coming down here this weekend. Some of it was performing, but […]
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I’m off to Orlando today. While I’m in transit you can swing by AMC to check out my top 10 list of Fantasy Chick flicks. There are two films that I genuinely like, plus eight that for me range from “run-screaming” to “not my cup of tea.” Can you guess which is which?
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Rehearsal tonight went fairly smoothly. I’m fortunate to have a pretty good kinetic memory, which means I learn blocking quickly. I compensate for this by having almost no memory for names and a poor one for faces. Luckily! I don’t need either of those when learning a new show. Even accounting for the kinetic memory,
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Today was one of those days that looked like I had nothing on the calendar and then I was out of the apartment all day. I started with breakfast and tea with a friend, then trotted off to the Puppet Kitchen to show some of the saw players I met this weekend around. From there
Saturday, I went with my dad and my nephew to the NYC Musical Saw Festival where they were part of an attempt to enter the Guinness Book of World Records for the largest Musical Saw ensemble. No, really, I’m not making this up. The previous record was set in Poland with 27 saw players, or
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Writing Chapter 3 went fairly smoothly, but when I got to Chapter 5 I realized that I’d made a geography error in Chapter 4. To fix that involved going back and laying in some small details in the first two chapters and rewriting the last two pages of Chapter 3 in order to lead in
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Peter got in safely. He and Dad spent the morning practising for the saw festival. The only hitch was that Peter had been learning the wrong Ave Maria so he and Dad sat down to work out on the Bach version. Afterwards we went out to lunch and then Peter and I trotted down to
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My dad is up for a visit. Well, no, actually that’s not quite true. My dad is up here to get in the Guiness Book of World Records, visiting us is a side benefit. My nephew is coming up tomorrow to join in the attempt. What are they trying to do? The annual Musical Saw
Yesterday, Rob and I picked Maggie’s body up from the vet, where they’d been holding her in the freezer. Yep, Maggie the Catsicle. You can tell we are feeling better because the gallow’s humor has emerged. We got on the motorcycle and went to upstate NY where some friends of ours had generously offered a
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Breaking news! I’ll be in Orlando at the International Orlando Puppet Festival, curated by Heather Henson on July 25th. I’m performing in Tiger Tales by Chinese Theatre Works. The whole festival looks amazing and I’m sorry to be there for only one weekend.
I know this idea will come as an anathema for many people, but as Rob and I get ready to move, I’m getting rid of most of my fiction. Let me rephrase that. I’m getting rid of the book forms of most of my fiction. I realized that I moved books out here that I
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I got sort of crazy amounts of writing done over the weekend, considering that I was at a con. Chapter 1 had given me fits, because I had some historical figures on stage. I’d hit a roadblock because I felt like I hadn’t done enough research, so I went off, did that and came back.
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I’m home from Readercon, which was fantastic as always. I managed to get my daily wordcount in somehow and wrapped up Chapter 4 on the train. At the moment, I’m heading to bed and husband. Talk to you all tomorrow.
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