2024 Thoughts
✦ October
"oh, I get it, it's the failure mode of humanism"
The thing about writer's block is that it's a signal that something you've written
Nicole Dieker Finley
2024 Thoughts
✦ October
How I am adapting E. Nesbit's "Melisande"
Now that I have written about what happens when adaptation goes wrong, I might as well start writing about how
2024 Thoughts
✦ October
Why Tim Minchin's MATILDA makes Miss Trunchbull the hero
I am going to write more about the process through which I am adapting E. Nesbit's short story
2024 Thoughts
✦ October
Starting conditions
It seems as if one should not begin by announcing a project, in the sense that whenever a person announces
2024 Thoughts
✦ October
WHAT IT IS and WHAT TO DO NEXT, Volume 4: None of the Monitors Are Asleep
I am writing this, at half past seven, in the breakfast nook that used to be a mudroom. I spent
2024 Thoughts
✦ October
WHAT IT IS and WHAT TO DO NEXT, Volume 3: D4, C4
I am writing this not precisely after dawn—it is the eve of the summer solstice, and although I woke
2024 Thoughts
✦ October
WHAT IT IS and WHAT TO DO NEXT, Volume 2: Is It What It Is?
I am writing this shortly after dawn, in our garden. There are succulents to my right and cucumbers to my
2024 Thoughts
✦ October
WHAT IT IS and WHAT TO DO NEXT, Volume 1: Down the Rabbit Hole
I am writing this shortly after dawn, in May 2022, while sitting in a rocking chair that used to belong
2024 Thoughts
✦ September
September 2024
Scored "Once Upon a Time" and "Twice Trouble" for MELISANDE.
Applied to Emergent Ventures to support
2024 Thoughts
✦ August
August 2024
Completed the Act One book for MELISANDE.
Completed four assignments for Newsweek, two for Bankrate, and one for Vox.
Taught
2024 Thoughts
✦ July
July 2024
Began drafting MELISANDE.
Completed four assignments for Newsweek and four assignments for Vox.
Coached one writer on her novel and
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✦ June
June 2024
Married Larry Finley, the great love of my life.
Completed four freelance assignments for Newsweek, one for AOL, one for