Steve Heyl

So, yeah, I didn’t get on stage last week. As often happens, I got distracted – finish watching an old TV series, write a little for a micro-book, research an upcoming trip, yeah a million things. I did get some feedback on my time travel story, so I have a few more notes and I’m…

It’s March. When I wrote my “goals for the year” (I don’t do “resolutions”), I targeted March as the month I would start actually writing the script for the time travel story. But – I’m still stuck in analysis paralysis. There are technical details – like, some deadline by which the main character has to…

One thing I’ve learned about myself. I work best with a deadline. And not a manufactured deadline. Not just “I need to finish this joke by Friday”; it needs to be “I need to finish this joke because I’m telling it on Friday”. So, this evening a submitted to join a play development program. I’ll…

So, yes I haven’t posted in a while, but it’s a new year and we’re making a new start, right? Actually, my plan for the year is to revisit a few writing projects that I have either not completed or am not satisfied with. I was once an actor in the premier (don’t it excited…

I’ve actually been pretty diligent about working on the script I’m doing for a short play. But then, even though I have an outline, I found I wrote myself into a corner. So I need to go back to the outline and tweak a few things before I go forward again. We have a big…

My last post was just after returning from Burning Man. Since then, my husband and I have done home renovation project, started a sign language class, and gone to both Universal Studios and Disneyland. Oh, and in the middle of all that, I did manage to outline a ten minute play for a friend’s upcoming…

Yikes another month has gone by and I haven’t written anything new. Much of August was spent planning for Burning Man, including coordinating with someone who went with me. There was also a week in San Diego for business that sort of messed up my schedule. Then, of course Burning Man itself, which was a…

Yeah, I should have posted the day after my San Diego set, but things got away from me. Spoiler Alert – as you can tell from the title, the set went well. Could have been better (it always could, right?) – I missed a few lines early on, so one of the callbacks didn’t land…

I asked for seven minutes on Saturday. I rehearsed my set – it runs about eight and a half. I know from experience that for this length, I actually need to come in about a minute early when I rehearse to allow for a pause (and hopefully applause) here and there when I do it…