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I now have a Twitter address and a Facebook page. For more information about my other plays and past productions, click here. I speak about the issue of Deep Characterization on this video posted on YouTube. I've created a site on YouTube called Oregon Writers Speak. It includes clips by Elizabeth Lyon speaking about writing query letters and Mike Thaler, author of The Teacher from the Black Lagoon and The Bully Brothers, offering a video tour of his workspace. |
| Essays on the Craft of Writing |
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| About the Author |
Play reviews
Essays that review plays....
The Passion and Power of Love & Hate -- A Review of Romeo and Juliet.
A review of Shakespeare's play about tragic love.
The Iceman Cometh.
A review of Eugene O'Neill's play about pipe dreams.
'night, Mother.
Marsha Norman's brilliant play about a mother, a daughter, a suicide.
The Heidi Chronicles
A review of the play by Wendy Wasserstein.
Death of a Salesman
A review of the play by Arthur Miller.
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
A review of the play by Edward Albee.The Narrative Tension of Hamlet
An exploration of how this play by Shakespeare generates narrative tension for its main character.A STORY IS A PROMISE and The Spirit of Storytelling (tm)
This workbook offers a new paradigm for understanding the process of creating stories. It guides writers to understand how a story functions as both a promise...and a promise kept. It offers a step by step process for using the promise concept to create dynamic, compelling stories, including Story Director, a method for outlining the key elements of a story in a way writers can test the dramatic value and strength of their story before they write it. For an outline of the workbook and more detail about ordering it, just clink on the link.
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