Intermission
a creative coffee break from writing the play

Archive of All Journal Entries

(listed by most recent to oldest)

• What Playwrights Do
• Playwrights Born in July
• Theresa Rebeck on How Everyone Thinks They Can Write
• Quotes from Lillian Hellman
• Lilly on Not Wasting Your Life
• Lilly on the Confidence Required
• Lilly on Needing Instinct to Write Plays
• Lilly on Needing Long Days to Write
• Lilly on Writing in Fragments
• Lilly on the Writer as Celebrity
• Lilly on Theatre Criticism
• Lilly Continues on the Mystery of How Stories Come Together
• More Lilly on the Mystery of Writing
• Lilly on the Mystery of It
• Lilly on Hearing Your Words Aloud
• Lilly on Waiting For Ideas for Plays
• Lilly on How You Write
• Lilly on What is Joyous About Writing
• Lilly on Failure in the Theatre
• Lilly on Writing Blocks
• Lilly on Creating Characters
• Lilly on the Impossibility of Teaching Drama
• Lilly on How to View Your Characters
• Lilly on Knowing Your Characters
• Lilly on Bureaucrats Control
• Lilly on the Length of Plays
• Lilly on Stage Entrances and Exits
• Lilly on Talking About Writing
• Lilly on Writing Lots of Drafts
• Lilly on Where Writers Come From
• Lilly on the Emotions While Writing
• Lilly on Writing About People
• Lilly on Research and Watch on the Rhine
• Celebrating Lillian Hellman All Month Long
• A Playwright Was Born This Day
• A Playwright Was Born This Day
• A Playwright Was Born This Day
• From South Pacific
• So Martin McDonagh Wrote…
• She Said This: Playwright Theresa Rebeck
• A Playwright Was Born This Day
• As Heard During the 2010 Humana Festival of New American Plays
• As Heard During the 2010 Humana Festival of New American Plays
• As Heard at the 2010 Humana Festival of New American Plays
• Sondheim Was Born This Day
• As Heard at During a Performance by Pandora Productions
• As Heard at the 2010 Humana Festival of New American Plays
• As Heard During the 2010 Humana Festival for New American Plays
• A Playwright Was Born This Day
• As Heard at ATL During 2010 Humana Festival of New American Plays
• A Playwright Was Born This Day
• As Heard at ATL During 2010 Humana Festival of New American Plays
• As Heard at New World Stages
• As Heard at the Samuel Friedman Theatre
• A Playwright Was Born This Day
• As Heard Today At Second Stage Theatre
• A Playwright Was Born This Day
• A Playwright Was Born This Day
• A Playwright Was Born This Day
• Callas sings Puccini via NPR
• A Playwright Was Born This Day
• A Playwright Was Born This Day
• A Playwright Was Born This Day
• A Playwright Was Born This Day
• As Heard During Crime and Punishment at ATL
• On Why She Writes
• As Heard During The Tens at ATL
• A Playwright Was Born This Day
• More Playwrights Born on January Days
• Get RSS via Email
• A Playwright Was Born This Day
• 2009: A Year of One-Minute Coffee Breaks
• Closing Thoughts on 2009 Meditation Series
• More Playwrights Born on December Days
• December Meditation: A Joke and A Celebration
• A Playwright Was Born This Day
• December Meditation Postponed
• A Playwright Was Born This Day
• It’s Coming! The December Meditation
• November Meditation: Harvesting, A Trio of Different Voices
• A Playwright Was Born This Day
• A Playwright Was Born This Day
• A Playwright Was Born This Day
• A Playwright Was Born This Day
• A Playwright Was Born This Day
• Come Join Us for the November Meditation
• More Playwrights Born on October Days
• A Playwright Was Born This Day
• A Playwright Was Born This Day
• October Meditation: An Act of Joy
• A Playwright was Born on This Day
• It’s Coming: October 12th One-Minute Meditation!
• A Playwright Was Born This Day
• A Playwright was Born on this Day
• September Meditation: Keep the Change
• A Playwright Was Born This Day
• A Playwright Was Born This Day
• It’s One-Minute Meditation Time Again!
• A Playwright was Born on this Day
• A Playwright was Born on this Day
• August Meditation: Art Is
• Coming Up: the August Meditation
• July Meditation: On Not Taking Credit
• It’s Coming! The July Meditation
• A Playwright was Born this Day
• A Playwright was Born this Day
• June Meditation: We’re Always Creating
• It’s Minute Meditation Time!
• A Playwright was Born This Day
• A Playwright was Born This Day
• A Playwright was Born This Day
• Another Minute is Coming!
• A Playwright was Born This Day
• May Meditation: Creative Stream
• A Playwright was Born This Day
• May It Please You to Join Us for One Minute
• A Playwright was Born on this Day
• A Playwright was Born on this Day
• A Playwright was Born on this Day
• A Playwright was Born on this Day
• A Playwright was Born on this Day
• April: Prayer of Gratitude
• April OMCCB Meditation
• A Playwright was Born on this Day
• World Theatre Day March 27
• It Resonates, too
• March: The Urge to Create
• Horton Foote
• The Invitation Once Again
• Why Not?
• February: Art Questions
• Robert Anderson
• For Your Consideration
• Next Up: The February OMCCB
• Even Mr. Updike Wrote A Play
• Accents
• This Day
• January: Art Pays
• Late, Late For A Very Important Date
• Still Time To Sign-Up for Tomorrow’s OMCCB
• Get On The List
• An Invitation: Tending To Ourselves During Hard Times
• With Great Anticipation For 2009
• Last One of the Year
• Dale Wasserman
• And then
• Harold Pinter
• Merry Christmas, My Friends
• One By One
• Magic Time
• William Gibson
• A Gratitude List
• Setting the Tone for the Day
• Plays Not Finished
• Then and Now
• Speaks for itself
• Studs, 1912 – 2008
• Tracking Play Submissions
• Addendum, Nothing But Pens
• Nothing But Pens, Again
• Little Black Notebooks (Moleskine alternatives)
• Nothing But Pens
• Ebbs and Flows
• Intermission.typepad.com
• Web/Tech Alert: How WordPress Pulls It All Together
• Everyone seems to be checking out
• Simon Gray, Playwright, 10/21/1936 – 08/06/2008
• A Thought for the Weekend or the Rest of Your Life
• Thoughts on Developing Plays, Part 2
• Thoughts on Developing Plays, Brief Digression
• Thoughts on Developing Plays, Part 1
• The Coffee House
• My, My
• Welcome to the New Digs!
• When It All Falls Apart
• Wordle.net
• Ch-ch-ch-changes
• Billy Wilder, Screenwriter
• True to his fashion, Steve wrote
• Dramatists Guild Suggested Script Formats
• Northern Writes: A new play festival in Bangor, Maine
• A Bit On Intermissions
• Best line of the week
• Helpful conversation
• Note sharing possibilities
• For the truly notetaking obsessed
• It Resonates
• Keeping Track
• Totally about my friend Eddie…kinda…sorta…yeah
• Pushing myself out of the way
• Nesting
• Earthquake Notes
• Notebooks
• Almost a year
• Jane Chambers
• Feeding
• New Plays Were Seen
• Another Sondheim Moment
• California
• Harmony…
• The C-Chart
• Playwriting – A Very Small Resource List
• Finishing the Draft
• Swapping Sites Updated
• Marsha Norman on Playwrights & the Theatre
• Idina
• Elevator Plays in Louisville
• Bookmooch
• To hope what is written is not of value to me alone1
• Replenishing
• Yes
• Actors without Writers
• Software I use
• Thanks Giving
• What I’m listening to while I write…
• Lifting up again
• A Sondheim Moment
• Letting Go
• Enforced Time Outs
• Processing
• Pocket Notes
• It’s an opera thing
• Short list of podcasts I’m listening to
• The path that’s scary
• When it’s handwritten
• House seats
• Warning: A Musical Discussed
• On Theatre
• More local theatre
• Well, it is still my favorite book…
• Belated Observations
• Last notetaking update
• Because I had a hard time finding all these…
• Finding Routine
• On getting going again, in Louisville
• Having arrived
• For Word Lovers
• More silence
• Moving…
• Fine Lines
• Packing Books
• A plethora of boxes drying
• Thinking within the box
• My Dog Ate My Earbuds
• Each day anew
• Dodging the Question
• Because some of you have asked about comments
• On being heard
• LitDept Desks
• Ten minutes come and gone
• The ten minute thing
• On Compression
• eMail back up!
• Again, with the re-writes
• Greener Grass
• When I Knew
• Oscar Wilde
• Ritual or Superstition
• This is not a play for many reasons
• O’Neill Issue Now Moot
• Interrupting for The O’Neill
• “Plays are never finished”
• A brief interlude for those looking for “How to write a play”…apologies to all other readers
• Distractions
• All you can do, is do it
• plus c’est la meme chose, plus la change…
• The Cresta Run
• Post-Reading
• Bless the Actors
• On Silence
• Where I Write
• Desk of MBH
• Addendum to the re-write of the re-write
• The re-write of the re-write
• The form is the Form is the form
• Re-Writing
• So Martin McDonagh Said…
• The Safe Friend
• A Safe Place – The Writers’ Group
• How It Happens
• Play Development
• Favorite Writing Tools
• Why I Write