L. Nicol Cabe

Transmedia storytelling!  “Transmedia storytelling (also known as transmedia narrative or multiplatform storytelling) is the technique of telling a single story or story experience across multiple platforms and formats using current digital technologies, and is not to be confused with traditional cross-platform media franchises,[1] sequels or adaptations.” Beautiful. I love it. I want to do it. Thank you, Robert Matney, for your HowlRound article “Hacking [...]

It’s nearly April, and it’s been over a month since SECOND DATE, a project co-produced by Annex Theatre and Rain City Projects, ended. It’s taken me awhile to get it together to write about this project, but here we go.   Back in December, I mentioned an email I received proposing the SECOND DATE project [...]

This weekend, On the Boards is offering a show called “A Piece of Work (formerly False Peach)”. The show, per it’s website write-up, mixes live performance and AI software. As part of the show’s run, OtB will also offer a master class with Annie Dorsen, who created the show. Dorsen has created basically a new [...]

The summary, written in a gray box along the right side of the page, says of this week: “This week may find you dealing with unaccustomed bursts of energy and sharp peaks of anger, joy, and grief. You are coming into your power as the illusory hold of your previously accepted limits is shaken. You [...]

Week Two of “The Artist’s Way” is titled “Recovering a Sense of Identity.” The first week was “Recovering a Sense of Safety,” so this is a nice bit of linguistic symmetry. As we continue into the rest of the 12 weeks, “Recovering a Sense of ____” starts every title sequence. The subtitles in this chapter [...]

The title of Week One is “Recovering a Sense of Safety.” It’s true, it is important to feel safe practicing art. Classes can help with this, but classes also force you to practice. Ironically, reading a book about art does not force you to practice that art. In general, the chapter encourages readers to overcome [...]

I failed at NaNoWriMo this year. There’s a lot of reasons I failed. I failed because I started this project while my mother is in a skilled nursing facility on the diagonally-opposite side of the country from me, suffering from several medical issues, so I have been flying back and forth a lot. I now [...]

Here we go again. More “Artist’s Way.” THE BASIC TOOLS Julia Cameron uses this chapter to explain, basically, how “The Artist’s Way” works. I feel like you could read this chapter and get everything you need out of the program, basically. There’s other nuggets of wisdom in the book, but this chapter actually outlines … [...]

I wanted to write about another two chapters in one go, but I have too much to say about this one alone. Cameron moves from vague spiritual woo into the realm of cult leader, and that, frankly, is a little scary. But here goes.

INTRODUCTION TO THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF THE ARTIST’S WAY One big problem I have with Cameron is her constant promotion of consumerism as spiritual healing. In this version’s introduction, she starts that right away in the first full paragraph: Difficult as it is to remember, it is our work that creates the market, not [...]