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Upheaval is a tale as old as time

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February 18, 2026

Why I set “Banshee” in the tumultuous era of the late 1700s.
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What we should talk about when we talk about AI

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February 13, 2026

AI is great, except for all its many drawbacks.
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What Yeats taught me about the banshee

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February 10, 2026

The Irish mythological creature has a deep and rich history.
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Playwriting year in review: It’s not all about the productions (luckily)

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December 4, 2025

(Updated Dec. 30, 2025.) I have never felt as though I’ve written “enough” — however you want to define that word. “Enough” to support my family? I’m a playwright; that will likely never happen. “Enough” to get produced on Broadway? Nice dream, but unlikely. Even then, I will most likely,…
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Get to ‘End of Play’ without your inner editor

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May 19, 2025

I typed “End of Play” but I didn’t mean it. I took part in “End of Play” even though it didn’t really exist this year. I got to the end of the play, which is odd because it was the first scene that I wrote. What matters, I suppose, is…
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Ireland: the perennial source of a writer’s inspiration

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March 18, 2025

I’ve been a journalist for more than 20 years. Most of that time, I’ve worked in newsrooms. But I don’t write many journalism-related plays. There are a few, like “Hero Work,” my satire of superhero comics and modern politics. I’m also fond of my play “Clips,” a short play about…
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Writing is a solitary act, except when it isn’t

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March 5, 2025

How I learned to stop worrying and play well with others.
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Write your way out of the darkness

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March 1, 2025

For the last several years, I have taken part in a writing challenge called ’28 Plays Later’ — an exercise in both speed and stamina. As the name implies, participants are tasked with writing one play every day in February. It can be one page or it can be 100;…
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Google will kill the Web with AI

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June 21, 2023

News publishers rightly worry that Google Bard will mean fewer visits to their sites. That’s bad for publishers, readers and the Web.
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Lazy Saturday blogging: Despondent dog

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February 18, 2023

Want content? Here’s a dog photo.
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First-time director has some notes

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February 15, 2023

I’m making my directing debut at the 2023 Reading Theatre Project’s 5-Minute Fringe Festival.
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Playwrights you should read, part one

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January 6, 2023

One in an irregular series of posts, giving well-deserved shout-outs to writers I admire.
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When the resolution goes astray

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January 2, 2023

My plan to finish a full-length play went a little off course, but in the service of another creative project.
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For the new year, a simple resolution

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January 1, 2023

I posted this on Mastodon earlier today, just a kernel of a thought. Since one of my New Year’s resolutions is (or ought to be) more blogging, it seems fitting to re-post it here as an actual blog post. In 2023, my New Year’s resolution can be boiled down to…
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Does Twitter matter?

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October 31, 2022

The past week has been a maelstrom of anxiety for many in the Twitterverse, after the gradual-then-sudden purchase of Twitter by billionaire Elon Musk. Of course, we all know that if there’s anything this world needs more of, it’s collective anxiety. Many people fled the platform. Racists filled Twitter with their…
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5 Things I learned from writing a play every day in February

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March 1, 2021

This year, as with every year, I made a New Year’s resolution to write “more.” Whatever that means. The best way to do this, of course, is to actually write more. Write every day. It’s that simple, and that complicated. But if you want to be a writer, that’s what…
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A reflection about the news business, through the lens of one peculiar career path

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March 21, 2019

[NOTE: This was posted on Twitter, at my @richterific account, then on Facebook. My wife urged me to share it so more people could read it, so I’m posting it here. I made some minor edits, because Twitter ≠ Facebook ≠ blogs.] I feel like writing a thread about how…
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Easter for atheists

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April 1, 2018

If you don’t believe, can you still get peanut-butter eggs? Easter is a holiday that, for a long time, never felt like it counted. It’s always on a Sunday, involves lots of chocolate and jelly beans and has such a strong Christian message to it that if you’re not…
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That time Ray Bradbury railed against Common Core

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February 4, 2016

I can’t read just one book at a time. At any given moment, I’m in the midst of reading as many as a half-dozen books. (According to my Goodreads account, I have 11 books on my Currently Reading list.) As a result, it takes me forever to finish a book.…
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Confessions of a non-lifelong Seahawks fan

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January 28, 2015

Sports fans are made, not born. Most of the time, team devotion is handed down from parents to children. In my case, I learned to love the Seattle Seahawks with the help of some friends, and with the help of a profound sense of loneliness. I became a Seahawks fan about ten years ago. That…
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