The Inspiration Pop marketing guru extraordinaire Seth Godin had a marvelous post recently. It was titled _Time for a workflow audit_, but the relatively short tidbit inside sparked a moment of self-reflection on my part. By the way, if you’re not following Seth’s daily tidbits of advice you should be (and you should use RSS). If you’re asking yourself “What is RSS?” or you’ve just returned from Google to find that I’ve caught you _not knowing _don’t feel bad. »
To revise, or not to revise, that is the Question Last semester I penned a play called The Decision and asked for comments from a variety of sources (including in the comments of this website). The comments did not flood in. One of the difficulties of crowdsourcing something like dramaturgy with lengthy material (even as short as my ten-minute play) is that a play is too long. The concept of crowdsourcing almost requires something that can be consumed in one quick gulp. »
“Obscurity” By Nina Paley” Recently I received a question from a former student and friend that highlights the confusion concerning copyright law and the various types of Creative Commons licenses. I wrote about the Creative Commons license I choose to use in a previous post but I wanted to tackle this question in its own post as I think it is deserving. As her e-mail didn’t come with a CC license at the bottom I asked and received permission to reprint her question here: »
People have been asking… “Why are you_ not_ using copyright” or “why would you let people_ copy your stuff?_” Well, I am using copyright (despite my opinion of it) because Creative Commons is a copyright license and it is my right to distribute and share my work in any way I choose. In other words: it is _my right _to give you rights. For those of you who want the short version feel free to simply watch the graphic below. »
The Decision to be Produced As luck would have it a little play of mine (at present titled The Decision) has been selected for a production in the RROAPS one-act festival at Texas Tech for the coming Spring. Perhaps it wasn’t luck at all (maybe it was something else) but I’m not complaining. Here’s the <50 word description: _A terrible event took place. An unlikely friendship was broken. One decision can’t be undone but two others hang in the balance. »
Each Spring Texas Tech University does something wonderful: they produce a handful of original, student written, 10 minute plays. RROAPS (or Raider Red’s One-Act Play Spectacular if you prefer) is this amazing event. At first I thought that I wouldn’t be submitting anything this year (in fact, since I’m mostly off-campus I didn’t even remember that submissions would be due so soon) but upon hearing about it I truly had to think about whether or not I’d be submitting a work for consideration. »
I’m currently working on a 10-minute play. I’ve been inspired by directing a short(ish) play for RROAPS, starting to sharply focus on my dissertation (involving playwriting process), and also reading Perfect 10: Writing and Producing the 10-Minute Playby Gary Garrison (who was the excellent respondent for RROAPS a few years ago). They play itself is also inspired by author Joseph Roach’s research in The Player’s Passion: Studies in the Science of Acting (Theater: Theory/Text/Performance)that I’ve been gladly reading as part of one of my doctoral courses in theatre history. »