Ready for the 10th Anniversary of Bindlestiff Studios’ Stories High!!!! 2 Nights only!!! Come support our new, emerging writers for an exclusive glimpse of potential screenplays that will be showcased in this year’s Stories High production. In two nights, we will cover nine brand new plays in a professional reading by various actors and directors….
Author: Conrad
Conrad's a San Francisco Bay Area Playwright. He loves long walks upon the concrete and rainy days. Aside from writing words for actors to regurgitate into an audience's ears and eyes, he loves sports, 90's R&B, and learning.
Bindlestiff’s 10 Stories High – Reading
Ready for the 10th Anniversary of Bindlestiff Studios’ Stories High!!!! 2 Nights only!!! Come support our new, emerging writers for an exclusive glimpse of potential screenplays that will be showcased in this year’s Stories High production. In two nights, we will cover nine brand new plays in a professional reading by various actors and directors….
The Power of Desire
With gleeful intent I’ve been watching and more importantly learning from various forms of fictional media specifically movies, a play, and reality tv. I haven’t written anything that can be construed as new for a good couple of weeks, but this time away from the Script Template I got going in word, has given me…
New short play – Leaving My <3 In SF
Hi… geez, getting back to this blog kinda makes me feel like I haven’t seen the friend in a long time that I purposely didn’t want to meet and now I fumble for the right excuse… not that I do this or anything. lalala. Anyways, as you can obviously see, I took a break from…
Tips from Kurt Vonnegut
Eight rules for writing fiction (http://www.troubling.info/vonnegut.html): 1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted. 2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for. 3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a…
back to reality…
so i workshopped BLANK CANVAS/LEAVING MY <3 IN SF and it didn't go over very well. and to be truthful, the play wasn't my best, WHICH SUCKS!!! cuz I know that i write better than this. I know it and I'm really disappointed in myself more than any ribbing I can take from anyone else….
Still focused on death
My subconscious is still focused on death and I don’t know why! I thought I got over this by first writing GARDEN OF DREAMS and ROOM 812, and the newest short play I finished last night BLANK CANVAS circles around death once again. I’ve discovered that my writing style is to just write, much like…
more ideas
2) The Greeter… about a person who’s job is it to greet hundreds of people everyday, but sinks more and more into a hole of depression from lonliness.3) Rent-a-wife: a story about a person who posts an ad about being a part-time-wife/escort/made. based on a real posting i found on craigslist.
10×10 Exercise
Here’s the exercise: on a piece of paper grid out 10 boxes by 10 boxes. by doing so, you’ll have 100 little squares just big enough to put 1 word in each. using the following instructions, put a word randomly into any of the 100 boxes. At the end, you’ll come up with some really…
Things I LOVE in stories
I was flipping through the channels this morning and saw david duchovny in a movie. i was admiring how natural, in his “look at me. i don’t look like i’m acting, doesn’t it?” kinda way. and wished that’s what i like to see, the acting part – very human that doesn’t look like they even…