Month: April 2004

I wish I had more to blog about, but my life is basically about sending out job applications and resumes right now. I’m done with the television show, since it’s done for the season. The Monty Python Society meets just one last time, this coming Sunday. And I ended up not writing anything for Voices of Central PA this month, although the April issue is up, and I’ll have an article in the May issue as well. Other than that, there’s not much going on. I’m still holding out hope for something other than living with my parents in two months, but I’m starting to worry if I’ll even be able to find a job in New York.

From an interview with David Carradine in this week’s Onion:

A playwright once told me, “Here’s what you do. You take situations and you build a perfect globe with the story. The problem is that nobody gets to see inside it. So you cut it in half and you show half the story, then let them make up the rest of it.” Because otherwise, it’s opaque. If you tell them everything, they’ll have nothing to think about.

This is in line with some of the best advice I’ve ever gotten from a writing instructor: don’t tell the readers anything they don’t need to know, and don’t tell them before they need to know it.