It’s a busy week here on Fidalgo Island, both in real life and for the players gathered together in A Play Demonic (The Queen’s Idle Fancy). A ton of huge milestones have happened . . . Some, like life, hitting the highs and the very lowest of moments as well, a yin and yang. I…
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Here is a tiny notice found in the local weekly concerning the Fidalgo Island Theater Ensemble and their spring drama choice. Word is spreading, and members of FITE will be recruiting throughout the winter months. People will be dying for parts to play. Rivalries will blossom. Hope will fade. “We are all demonic!”—QUEEN STORMAG One…
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Another week passes and it’s all I can do to get the next chapter to you, faithful reader . . . opening with the first intermission and then Waltzcrop makes another appearance. Roger Compish is being twisted from within and without. I hope you enjoy this chapter. Please let me hear from you across any…
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The Play (The Queen’s Idle Fancy) continues, and I’m thinking of changing the title to this and would love to hear your opinion: A Play Demonic (The Queen’s Idle Fancy) — I like spelling out that supernatural forces are at play in the title, that it is a horror story, and that a demon, or…
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Once more, the writing angels and demons have been battling throughout the week, and another super-sized edition developed. Here are two scenes. The first where Waltzcrop’s assistants make another appearance, and the second where Waltzcrop acquaints himself with the island’s Mayor for the first time, startling him at his place of business, and, then, haunting…
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The longest chapter arrives today in a fitful burst of energy. Roger is relieved to have the copy of the play once more in his clutches, and when he shares it with Sally and Morton, sparks fly. I also loved creating Leonora, who will loom larger as the tale progresses. Writing a weekly serial is…
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Where did I leave you last? Oh yes, the meeting with the cast and crew of the Fidalgo Island Theater Ensemble was about to begin . . . and now it ends, and on a sinister note. More mischief to come . . . Read on, and then reread, and please let me know how…
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I’m getting to know the peripheral characters in the cast today just a bit more. The cast I’ve created, and the future cast of the play. Sally is someone with an interesting past, and she has an adoring suitor. She and Martin were introduced in Part 1, and Sally will play a supporting role once…
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Hello A Writer’s Life readers, Just a short interlude to let everyone see Zippy in all his glory . . . shadowed by years and the sun. Zippy is a magnificent pooch, a long-coat German shepherd from the von Bullinger breeders up in Canada. In human years, he’s supposedly around 60 years old, a ripe…
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All the world’s a stage . . . and Shakespeare knew this best. Today’s chapter begins with his poem about this stage, the theater, the players, and shadows the creation of today’s chapter. One of the characters in The Play (The Queen’s Idle Fancy) is being charmed, cajoled . . . conjured. “We are all demonic!”—Queen…
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