2010 Output

At the end of every year, I add up my inputs/outputs.  I've still got a few more days for inputs (I'm hoping to see some movies this week and finish some books), but I won't get any more writing done until Christmas vacation is over.  So here's how 2010 worked out, output-wise:

• Did an edit/rewrite of my novel, Moving (A Life in Boxes), cutting about 6,300 words
• Did a rewrite of my middle-grade novel, Buried Treasure.
• did some freelance business writing (which helped pay some bills).
• rewrote some of my play Constant State of Panic, after the production in DC in January
• Completely rewrote my full-length play about the creation of English Bible, now titled Fire on Earth.  This was a total gut rehab (even changed the title and main characters)
• Wrote 8 very short audio plays for the Emerging America Festival (one of which was recorded--I Am Not Invisible.)
• Wrote Escape to Wonderland, a new ten-minute drama, for the T Plays produced by Mill 6 Theatre Collaborative.
• Wrote a one-act play, The Light Collectors, for the Youth Astronomer Apprenticeship program with MIT and the Central Square Theatre.  This was my first commissioned play.
• Started a first draft of a new historical novel (I have about 100 pages so far)
• Wrote a new ten-minute comedy, Curse the Darkness.
• Wrote a new full-length drama, Flight, based on two of my ten-minute plays.  I'm having a reading of this from Madcap Players in DC in January.
• A bunch of blog posts on my three different blogs.

This feels like a pretty good list, a nice mix of playwriting and novel writing, as well as first draft writing and rewriting.  If I get this much written again next year, I'll be extremely satisfied.


Production-wise, 2010 wasn't bad.  The year saw dozens of productions by schools, through the various publishers that handle my work.  Productions/readings of my work included:

• Constant State of Panic was produced by the Madcap Players in DC.  And a reading from Boston Playwrights Theatre.
• Confirmed Sighting in Boston and New York.
• Recognition in Pick of the Vine Festival by Little Fish in California
• Schedule-Meisters in Minnesota and Australia
• Fire on Earth received a reading from the Huntington Theatre Company in August.
• Measuring Matthew by Another Country in Boston
• Lies, Lies, Lies by Actors Refuge Repertory in Boston.

The Next Big Thing, Confirmed Sighting, Recognition, Schedule-Meisters, and Stick Up for Mars were published by Brooklyn Publishers.  Counting Rita was published in a Best Ten-Minutes Plays anthology by Smith & Kraus.  My one-act, Reassembling Sasha, was published by YouthPlays.




Oh, and I finally found an agent for my novels (and other books to come), which made 2010 a pretty darn good year.  (Now I need 2011 to bring a book deal.)


Overall, a minimum of 7,500 people heard, read, or saw my work performed this year, and I had more than 122 performances of my plays, which is not bad at all.

It's hard to say what 2011 will be like.  I have a production of Escape to Wonderland scheduled for January, but after that the calendar looks pretty empty.  Lots of room for good things to happen.