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For anyone who's interested, here's an update on what's new in my life.

I've been married for almost a year now, and I can honestly say that married life is the "bomb diggity" (translation = "it rocks"). My day-job has also been very satisfying and rewarding, if at times stressful and exhausting, but hey, if I may use a cliché here: "That's why they call it work and not play."

Speaking of "play," Juliana has been very supportive in letting me pursue my acting and my writing nonsense.

As most of you know, I'm revising my role of Alyosha in the stage play THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV this October, in Manhattan's historic off-off-Broadway venue, the Mazer Theatre. For more information, check out www.redmonkeytheater.org – I hope you all can spread the word and come out to see it.

I've also been working on a few writing projects:

An adaptation of Milton's PARADISE LOST. Yes, this is a very ambitious endeavor, bringing the classic epic poem to the stage, but I think it's full of potential. I hope to have a draft done within a year, along with some of my ideas for character/set/lighting/music design, and maybe have a reading/presentation ready for public feedback by this time in 2007. Fingers crossed.

1. LANCELOT AND THE THEATER OF WAR. I've finally figured out a way to turn my story idea about an old guy who thinks he's Sir Lancelot (of King Arthur's Knights of the Round Table) into a full-length stage play. The structure and various characters are developing nicely, and again, I hope to have a final draft version of this ready for workshopping in a year or so. The story is really providing me with the chance to vent some ideas I have about the modern world, morality, faith, violence, power, art, growing old, etc. We'll see how it turns out.

2. CHILDISH THINGS BEHIND. I had a recent inspiration to take some of my stories that I wrote back when I was a naive little kid and write new re-imagined versions of them. I'm thinking this might be an interesting experiment and maybe I can get this published with my old stories side be side with their contemporary versions. (Listen up, true believers, this is another example of why any of you writers out there should never, ever, ever throw out anything you've ever written, no matter how craptastic you might think it is. You never know when, down the road in life, you might get inspired to make some diamonds out of those crazy lumps of coal.)

3. Revisions of my previously written stories. I hope to finalize versions of some of the short stories, screenplays, and stageplays that I've already written. I particularly want to touch up my DREAM FRAGMENTS anthology and shop it around to some publishers. Then I'd like to compile my short stories in one collection, and finish some drafts of my many screenplays which are in various stages of completion.

4. Writers Group. If everything goes according to plan, I'd like to restart a writing group, similar to the very successful one I led a while ago and building on the one that my buddy Vin and I had going for years. I have some ideas for it and hopefully, we'll be able to kick-start it around January.

That's it for now. I welcome your ideas, feedback, critiques, suggestions, or just random verbiage. And don't forget to check out my City of Kik newsgroup for news about the entertainment/media world.

Carry on.
posted by Nick at 12:07 AM [edit]