Eek! Sorry for this week’s post being late. It has been quite the busy week here at Art
Thief Headquarters. We have been holding
auditions for Homestead Theatre Project’s upcoming production of my show Empty Boxes. And I have been chained to my computer,
pounding out the first draft of My Mother’s
Daughters; which had its first reading this past Saturday.
On the
upside, Empty Boxes has its callbacks
confirmed with some wonderful options for each role and My Mother’s Daughters is in the mail for the SummerWorks
submissions, so I can focus a little more on this blog.
Now,
plunder for this week... well, this has actually been the hardest week for me
to come up with something because my thoughts have been so focused
elsewhere. In fact, as I sit here, I
still have not titled this entry because I haven’t decided what it is about
yet. All I know is that by the time
Monday rolled around, I was exhausted!
Anyhoo,
this might be a short entry, but I think my plunder for this week is something I
am stealing from the people who auditioned for us on the weekend. One of the auditionees talked about another
audition he did for a collective he was a part of; they were required to bring
in an object for their audition and present a story that they created based on
that object. His was a mason jar. As soon as he began talking about it, my mind
started running overtime with various stories, ideas and things flashing
through my head. I loved it.
This is
what I’m stealing this week. I think I’m
going to start using this idea as a writing exercise to keep those old creative
juices flowing. Step One: Pick a random
object. Step Two: Write a story about that object. Simple.