The Laramie Project continues this weekend at The Lubbock Community Theatre. It's a great production! Please tell others in the West Texas area about it.
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Monday, February 13, 2012
Saturday, February 11, 2012
Lubbock, Texas: February 17-19, 24-26, March 2-4, 2012: The Lubbock Community Theatre will stage The Laramie Project.
Their description of the play:
I previously saw The Laramie Project performed at Texas Tech University, and saw the HBO movie version. Both were good.
Their description of the play:
In October 1998 a twenty-one-year-old student at the University of Wyoming was kidnapped, severely beaten and left tied to a fence in the middle of the prairie outside Laramie, Wyoming. He died several days later in an area hospital. His name was Matthew Shepard, and he was assaulted because he was gay. Moises Kaufman and the Tectonic Theater members have constructed a deeply moving theatrical experience from over 200 interviews of people from Laramie and their own experiences after the beating and death. The Laramie Project is a breathtaking theatrical collage that explores the depths to which humanity can sink and the heights of compassion of which we are capable.
I previously saw The Laramie Project performed at Texas Tech University, and saw the HBO movie version. Both were good.
The video Gay Love Poem has received more than a quarter of a million views at YouTube. Happy Valentine's Day!
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Writing a Novel: Sons of Taldra. The writing process.
I’ve posted a few blog entries about my work on the sequel to Degranon: A Science Fiction Adventure. You can read the other entries by clicking on the Sons of Taldra tag at the end of this one.
The draft I finished slowly changed from 31 to 21 chapters, because of combined chapters and cut or combined scenes. Quite a few scenes provided nice interactions between certain characters, but really added nothing to the overall novel and slowed it down unnecessarily. Other scenes went by too quickly and needed expanding or combining.
I know from experience that the novel’s final draft will look nothing like the first one. Even the ending has changed with revision, and one scene that occurred in the middle of the book now occurs during the final chapter! Actually, though, it looks like the opening will see the most changes from here, with a long action sequence that will expand some more.
For this novel, I keep working one chapter at a time, printing new drafts of an individual chapter when needed. The printed chapters often become hard to read, because of the insertions, cross-outs, and arrows (“move this part here,” etc.).
My past novels started as short stories that I slowly expanded. Sons of Taldra started with some ideas and an outline, spawned in part from the memory of a character I created for the first book but never used. I had written a scene for him before realizing it wouldn’t quite fit into the narrative. Still, he helps bring together some ideas I had for the sequel, along with a few passing references that occurred during the first novel. (I won’t say any more about that. Spoilers!)
I plan to completely revise all the chapters again, creating a new draft that comes closer to a finished work, and then focus on polishing the complete novel from there.
I’ve posted a few blog entries about my work on the sequel to Degranon: A Science Fiction Adventure. You can read the other entries by clicking on the Sons of Taldra tag at the end of this one.
The draft I finished slowly changed from 31 to 21 chapters, because of combined chapters and cut or combined scenes. Quite a few scenes provided nice interactions between certain characters, but really added nothing to the overall novel and slowed it down unnecessarily. Other scenes went by too quickly and needed expanding or combining.
I know from experience that the novel’s final draft will look nothing like the first one. Even the ending has changed with revision, and one scene that occurred in the middle of the book now occurs during the final chapter! Actually, though, it looks like the opening will see the most changes from here, with a long action sequence that will expand some more.
For this novel, I keep working one chapter at a time, printing new drafts of an individual chapter when needed. The printed chapters often become hard to read, because of the insertions, cross-outs, and arrows (“move this part here,” etc.).
My past novels started as short stories that I slowly expanded. Sons of Taldra started with some ideas and an outline, spawned in part from the memory of a character I created for the first book but never used. I had written a scene for him before realizing it wouldn’t quite fit into the narrative. Still, he helps bring together some ideas I had for the sequel, along with a few passing references that occurred during the first novel. (I won’t say any more about that. Spoilers!)
I plan to completely revise all the chapters again, creating a new draft that comes closer to a finished work, and then focus on polishing the complete novel from there.
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
I updated my main Rainbow: Lubbock/Gay in Lubbock, Texas entry, updating the links and adding the following link to search results.
You Tube: It Gets Better Lubbock
You Tube: It Gets Better Lubbock
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Gay Movie Review: The Love Patient.
A gay man decides to win back his ex-boyfriend by faking cancer in this unusual romantic comedy, written and directed by Michael Simon. How could such a plan go wrong? Read my review at ThisWeekInTexas.Com.
A gay man decides to win back his ex-boyfriend by faking cancer in this unusual romantic comedy, written and directed by Michael Simon. How could such a plan go wrong? Read my review at ThisWeekInTexas.Com.
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
News about the Star Wars TV series: Star Wars: Underworld, could it star Boba Fett and Prince Xizor?
The Fades premieres on BBC America this week, in its Supernatural Saturday timeslot, which is usually occupied by Doctor Who, Primeval, Being Human, or Bedlam.
The Fades premieres on BBC America this week, in its Supernatural Saturday timeslot, which is usually occupied by Doctor Who, Primeval, Being Human, or Bedlam.
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