Here continues my musing on some tropes that frequently recur in my writing! Specifically, analyzing my tendency to use what I refer to as "Soft Masc" protagonists-- "a male character with a presentation that is fairly normatively masculine, but with a preponderance of personal qualities that were traditionally coded as feminine" --and how that manifests.... Continue Reading →
Tropes in my writing: Soft Masc characters, part 2
Here continues my musing on some tropes that frequently recur in my writing! Specifically, analyzing my tendency to use what I refer to as "Soft Masc" protagonists-- "a male character with a presentation that is fairly normatively masculine, but with a preponderance of personal qualities that were traditionally coded as feminine" --and how that manifests.... Continue Reading →
Tropes in my writing: Soft Masc characters, part 1
Here begins my musing on some tropes that frequently recur in my writing! The trope that has become increasingly important to my work in recent times is what I’ll call the Soft Masc— a male character with a presentation that is fairly normatively masculine, but with a preponderance of personal qualities that were traditionally coded... Continue Reading →
The challenges of plotting Mrs. Hawking part 4
Bernie and I have begun work on Mrs. Hawking part four, tentatively titled Gilded Cages, and we're running into some challenges. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised, as we've had this happen with each subsequent installment, but this one has presented some difficulties that are thus far unique. The biggest thing to deal with is... Continue Reading →
Reflections on 31 Plays in 31 Days 2016
Well, I have completed the challenge for the fifth year in a row! I sure do like looking at five years’ worth of complete lists of everything I wrote. I went into this wondering if maybe it wasn’t a good idea to do the challenge this year. I was finishing up a piece, the Hood... Continue Reading →
31 Plays in 31 Days 2017, #31 – “True Gentleman”
I powered through and finished! EARLY too, the earliest I've ever finished the 31P31D challenge, but I had the time and I wanted to knock it out. This last one deals with an idea I'm surprised I've never noodled with before. One little character bit in the Hawking stories that I enjoy is the fact... Continue Reading →
31 Plays in 31 Days, #30 – “Alone”
Here I go again, banging out important, high-emotion moments from stories that I can't fully picture in too short a period of time. That is a recipe for wasting them. But I just want to finish 31P31D 2016 at this point, and I'm so close, so I'm just going with any idea I think I... Continue Reading →
31 Plays in 31 Days, #29 – “After Two Years”
A brief moment from the seventh Mrs. Hawking story. It takes place two years after Mrs. Hawking and Mary have a fight that makes them go their separate ways. Here Mary returns to London on a case, and she runs into Mrs. Hawking totally by surprise when she's working the same case. Their reunion is... Continue Reading →
31 Plays in 31 Days, #28 – “Loyal Servant of the Empire”
I hate how this turned out. It was written too fast and without the planning that it needs. It's an important scene from Mrs. Hawking part four, but it messes all the important parts up. In the flashback to Mrs. Hawking's youth in the Asian colonies, I want there to be some injustice happening there... Continue Reading →
