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No. 27 London's Urban Writers Retreat
“The biggest problem you’re likely to have as a writer is not actually writing.” -- Charlie Haynes, Urban Writers Retreat This video of...
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pgracemiles
- Feb 8, 2019
- 3 min
No. 26 Shakespeare, TV, & A Podcast
Here are the rest of my January Top 10 creative inspirations. Nabhaan Rizwan and Roger Jean Nsengiyumva in Informer 5. The National...
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pgracemiles
- Feb 7, 2019
- 2 min
No. 25 The Romans Are Coming
'Tis then when the Hurdy Gurdy Man Comes singing songs of love -- Donovan Here is number 4 on my list of top cultural experiences and...
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pgracemiles
- Feb 5, 2019
- 2 min
Seven Plays, Seven Deaths & A Queen
Inspired by Austin #StealLikeAnArtist Kleon, I’ve put together my January top artistic experiences and influences. Kleon’s is a top ten...
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pgracemiles
- Feb 4, 2019
- 2 min
No. 23 Clocked
“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid...
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pgracemiles
- Feb 3, 2019
- 2 min
Ursala Le Guin Made Time
"If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don’t marry and have kids, and above all, don’t die. But if you have to die, commit...
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pgracemiles
- Feb 2, 2019
- 3 min
No. 21 Shurtleff's Thirteen
Part One: The “I’m Okay, You’re Screwed Up” Approach. "Happy to see this on display. Best acting book ever! --- Patron In an interview...
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pgracemiles
- Feb 1, 2019
- 4 min
Guest Blogger: George Orwell on Tea
I have no argument with Orwell's excellent essay on tea. Though I put the milk in first, it warms up faster. "If you look up ‘tea’ in the...
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pgracemiles
- Jan 31, 2019
- 2 min
No. 19 Memes for Writers
P A T T I E M = A Richly drawn thriller about an amorally compromised doctor’s failure to explore toxic friendships. This meme by...
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pgracemiles
- Jan 31, 2019
- 3 min
No.18 Literary Managers I've Tea'd With
In 2014, I took myself to London for 50 days for my 50th birthday. Before I left the northwest, a Seattle union theatre had put out a...
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pgracemiles
- Jan 29, 2019
- 3 min
No. 17 The Theatre Set Patricia Highsmith Built
“People, feelings, everything! Double! Two people in each person. There's also a person exactly the opposite of you, like the unseen part...
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pgracemiles
- Jan 28, 2019
- 2 min
The Mad Hatters of Montreal
'Have some wine,' the March Hare said in an encouraging tone. Alice looked all around the table, but there was nothing on it but tea. 'I...
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pgracemiles
- Jan 27, 2019
- 3 min
No. 15 Keep Pattie Weird
“You’re a sweet girl and I’m so glad I got to know you. (Even if you are a little weird!) It’s been a fun year and you’ve been a part of...
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pgracemiles
- Jan 26, 2019
- 2 min
A Most Dangerous Tea
"And he sang as he watched and waited 'til his "Billy" boiled. You'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me" The Australian Tea Ceremony Billy...
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pgracemiles
- Jan 26, 2019
- 3 min
Do Digital and Art Still Need to Get a Room?
Go flirting to serve the Lords of Social Media as a showgirl or wizard, or, looking for adventure, to wander from platform to platform of...
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pgracemiles
- Jan 25, 2019
- 2 min
No. 12 Ibsen's Queen
Norway's Liv Ullmann sometimes gives names to the people in her book, but most of the time she does not. In my mid - twenties when I was...
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pgracemiles
- Jan 23, 2019
- 1 min
No. 11 Charting Characters In My Play
It is five o'clock on a winter's morning in my home. Alongside the platform of my mind stands a train majestically full of a cast of 13...
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pgracemiles
- Jan 22, 2019
- 1 min
No. 10 The Splendor of Female Artistic Sovereignty
Last night I dreamt I went to Firenze with Gucci again. One of my fangirl indulgences is the magazine The Gentlewoman. It comes out twice...
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pgracemiles
- Jan 21, 2019
- 3 min
No. 9 Bliss and Loving in Tea City
I was somewhere around Paddington on the edge of Edgware Road when the tea craving began to take hold. Thirty years ago, at the age of...
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pgracemiles
- Jan 20, 2019
- 2 min
No. 8 L'enfant Badass
A Young African American Playwright Takes No Prisoners Playwright Jeremy O Harris first came to my attention last month when his...
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