We’re back, gang, with another review of a book from the Creative Activities Dot-Dot-Dot Program series: Producing! Yes, we’re gonna learn all about “getting the show on the road.” That includes aspects including make-up, costumes, props, scenery, stages, special effects, the script, and the production… Read More »#8 Producing: Creative Activities…Program Series
In 2005, I had a summer-long job as the creative writing assistant at Arts Alive, a high school art program. It was the most obviously creative job I’ve ever had, and inspiring and fun to boot. And in this post, I’ll be reminiscing all about… Read More »Working Gal: When I Was a Creative Writing Assistant
I recently found my artist statement from The Tampon Ball, which—as you can discern from the title of this post—was my first art exhibition. Sure, I had had my work in school art shows but never did I star in one. That changed one summer… Read More »The Tampon Ball: My First Art Exhibition
I mentioned the story Fallen Angels once upon a time. The title makes it sound like a manuscript at the bottom of Anne Rice’s reject pile. In truth, it’s a Sweet Valley High ripoff with bits of My So-Called Life thrown in. (There’s even an… Read More »Fallen Angels: A Terrible Story That Led to a Webcomic
It was the early ’90s, and I was obsessed with American Gladiators. Perhaps you remember this TV show featuring intensely buff characters pummeling normal Joe and Suzy Schmoes with giant Q-tips. So enamored was I that I mailed my five dollars off to wherever to… Read More »The Best “American Gladiators” Fanfic Ever
It’s been a while since we endured a flip-through of one of these Creative Activities Cryptic-Out-of-Place-Ellipses Program books, and this time, we’ll be Communicating! Considering how well these books have communicated ideas so far… Jesus. See, there was an example of how to use ellipses… Read More »#7 Communicating: Creative Activities…Program Series
Time for a dose of weird cat art, gang! But first, a little exposition. For me, the most fun part about the cat-collecting app game Neko Atsume is naming the cats. Tubbs has become “Feast Beast.” Ms. Fortune is now “Mariah Carey.” The only cat… Read More »Weird Cat Art: Neko Atsume Goes to Hollywood
Teen book series like Sweet Valley High made Young Me think high school was a magical time and place. Actually experiencing it myself changed my mind, and it only seems to get worse and worse. (See: Gun violence, cyberbullying, and your friends Snapchatting a butt… Read More »My Ideas for a Teen Book Series -OR!- My Sweet Valley High Ripoff
Now we’ll take a trip to 1994, a scant year after I penned my murderous mermaid masterpiece More Blood, to when I owned a (stylish!) model company! Actually, I was eleven so I didn’t own shit. I also didn’t really know anything about modeling. But… Read More »Stylish Model Company
When my maternal grandmother died, she left behind a pretty decent-sized collection of vintage comics that included Creepy, Eerie, MAD, and Cracked. These, paired with my dad’s Conan the Barbarian comics, made for some pretty educational reading material for Third-Grade Me in the mid-’90s. I… Read More »Tie-Dyed Creepy Comics