A happy Easter weekend to you all!
Hello, everyone. I apologize for not checking in earlier thisweek. Between singing in LDS General Conference over the weekend and doingdress rehearsals for “The Secret Garden” at the Hale Center Theater Orem, I’vebeen pretty booked. It was a bit of a rough start for the first part of Aprilas far as writing goes, but I made up for it with a good writing day yesterday.
Here’s a few announcements:
I’m going to be in Ephraim Utah at the “Write Here in Ephraim”event, teaching my class on avoiding cliché and signing books. It will be heldmost of the day on Saturday April 14th at Snow College, so stop byif you are in the area.
All the submissions for my Christmas anthology are in and thereare great things in store. I have an editor and a cover artist on board and I’mready to go. One of my favorites is a historical fiction piece that centersaround the legend of Good King Wenceslas. Look for that and more this holiday season. (Sounds like I need a movie trailer voicethere.)
If you’d like to see me and many other wonderful actors andactress’s in “The Secret Garden” you can get your tickets online at http://www.haletheater.org. The firstperformances start April 13th and the show runs all the way untilJune 2nd. I will be performing every Monday, Wednesday and Fridaynight as well as some of the Saturday matinees. (I’ll post those later). Ihighly recommend you come see this one. It not only has incredible music, but atimeless and touching story that will stay with you long after the show isover.
Also don’t forget to check out my web serials to which I havecontributed.
http://bigworldnetwork.com/PhineasFrakture.html (We
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By: Michael Young,
on 2/16/2012
Blog: The Canticle (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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I’m back! I apologize for the short hiatus. From choir tours, toauditions, to funerals and more, my life has been on overdrive lately.
There have been many personal triumphs lately. For starters, ifyou are living in Utah, be sure to come see me perform in “The Secret Garden”at the Hale Center Theater Orem beginning in April. You can get details at http://www.haletheater.org.
I’ll let you know of the others in my writing update. As far aswriting goes, I’ve really hit my stride. Just take a look at the numbers:
Stats:
My word count for the week: 11,672
Running Total: 75,586
Writing Tip of the Week:
I’ll start sharing some tips from my presentation at UVU called “AvoidingCliché Like the Plague”. (See picture at the beginning of the post) Here’s myfirst installment:
There are three kinds of cliché I try to strike out of my writing:
Cliché Phrases: “He’s as skinny as a pole.”
Cliché Plot Points: “The knight saves the damsel.”
Cliché Characters: “The elf has pointy ears, and an affinity forbaking.”
All of them can helped by taking what you have and twisting it,adding a vivid detail or two. Insteadyou could have:
“He’s as skinny as a melting icicle.”
“The knight’s horse saves the knight.”
“The elf is a sculptor whose greatest dream is to fly.”
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Hi! Is that a photo of you singing during conference? SO COOL! Congratulations on all the writing projects you're succeeding at- this was a very inspiring post. PS I still LOVE the Canticle Kingdom. And I love my signed copy.