WRITING: Topsy-turvy normalcy

Now here’s what it’s about, from a published playwright, producer, professor, writer:

Topsy-turvy normalcy –

characterized either by mania or by depression or by alternating mania and depression
  = manic-depressive

Sure describes a lot of writers I know, including myself. An immediate example: after good feedback from my agent, I rewrote the current splay in a week and zipped it back. Then nothing. Did he hate it so much he was hesitant to reply? Or just busy? Well, the latter, exhale exhale. Rec’d an apology note this morning for being late with it.

To think I go through this crap after half a century in the biz! It’s cheering from the rooftops or hiding under the covers.

I expect it to be an improvement. It doesn’t have to be ready but it has to be better. He says he’ll get it done this weekend.

(Via The Writing Life II.)

Charles Deemer has established himself as a pro; we here in class are on maybe the first rung of the ladder or maybe still finding a spot to lean it against the wall.  Deemer has explored and explained hypertext and hyperdrama so his experience is up to the minute on contemporary writings.

And so it goes.