NANNOWRIMO TAKOVER Tidbit Tuesday Bucket List: Plays

This week is nuts.

First, because THANKSGIVING!!!! which means probably no blog on for the rest of the week(thank you Squash-hunting and turkey and Black Friday insanity).

The other reason is that NaNoWriMo is coming to an end. Sad face.

Getting off NaNoWriMo is a bit like getting off an adrenalin rush.

In other words, less than a week from now, I won't know what to do with myself. At all. I call it the NaNoWriMo Crash--the thing all writers deal with at one point or another and have to get over to move on to the next project.

And it's NaNoWriMo makes this harder.

The upside is, I know when this happens, I can turn my second hobby: lists.

So I have a list for y'all.

When I was in high school, I was a "closet nerd". I knew about things("Supernatural", Marvel, TMNT, etc) but I never talked about them. Ever.

In college it got a little better because of the people I spent time/lived with("oh, you're going to do a "Supernatural" binge instead of study for midterms? Cool! Me too!").  I read nerdy books, saw nerdy movies, etc. etc.

And then I discovered nerdy plays.

I blame Qui Nguyen for this one.

I found one of his plays--"She Kills Monsters"--and devoured it.

DE.VOURED. IT.

I found something that appealed to my nerdiness; something I could relate to. And it didn't stop there.

Guys, there are more.

So many more!

In other words, the perfect cure for NaNoWriMo Crash 2015. Check this(re-reads included in list just because):

1. She Kills Monsters by Qui Nguyen
    Set in the 90s(when I grew up) and it's about RPG. And nerds. Yeah......
    I've seen production stills, I read the script, but have I been in a production? Not yet...

2. Clown Bar by Adam Symkowicz 
     Think film noir, but with clowns. Like, red-nose-wearing-polka-dot-sporting-crazy-wigged-
     legit-circus clowns. In a bar. With guns. And it's immersive, so it's supposed to be performed
      in a bar. Not on stage. In a bar. Oh my glob!

3. Toothpaste and Cigars by TJ Dawe and Michael Rinaldi
      Ok, so it's not exactly nerdy, but it's a sweet little relationship story with characters that are---    
      really quirky. Like, I saw the film version and...shall we say gained a whole new respect
      for Daniel Radcliffe? Yes.

4. Superstudent and the Case of the Missing Water Pistol
    I stage managed this show years ago, and can't for the life of me remember the playwright
    or how I got it(which is why no link, so sad). BUT--it's a sixth grade superhero battling
    a supervillain who has a water pistol that freeze people! Um...YAAAASSSS

5. R&J&Z by Melody Bates
    Guys, "Romeo and Juliet".
    With ZOMBIES.
     The end.

6. Soul Samarai by Qui Nguyen
    Ok, so I haven't even read this one. BUT I WANT TO!!!!!

Quirky Monday: Theme Reading and NaNoWriMo

So here's the thing.

A while ago, I posted about how much I love books. Much too much.

But there's another facet to this little booknerd quirk of mine.

I "theme read".

Seriously, I have a Halloween list, a Christmas list, a Fourth of July list, a Spring list, Winter list, and Easter list.

I don't know what it is, but I have to read books that fit the time of year. Maybe not all the books I can possibly find, but there are two or three(or five or six), that I read during a specific time of year.

A Christmas Carol is strictly for December, as are Louisa May Alcott's The Abbot's Ghost and Lauren Willig's Mischief of the Mistletoe(and soon Rhys Bowen's Twelve Clues of Christmas)

The Secret Garden is Spring Read; The Shadow, Sherlock Holmes, MC Beaton's books and Legend of Sleepy Hollow are for Halloween.

Recently, I added Patricia Clapp's Constance and Louisa May Alcott's Little Men to my Fall/Winter list(question: WHY has this never been adapted to the stage or made into a decent film? I mean, the made for TV Canadian one was--ok, but it's no longer on Netflix and the TV series was--meh. WHY?!)

Here's the funny thing though--I don't have a Thanksgiving list. Not that I don't know any Thanksgiving themed books(see the two listed above), but my reading for November picks up a different "theme".

NaNoWriMo.

For those not in the know, NaNoWriMo stands for "National Novel Writing Month", when writers everywhere write a novel(or in my case, a play) in one month. I used to try novels for November and scripts for April, but I get too caught up in dialogue and it turns into a play anyway.

And because I am a writer, it helps so much when the books I am reading coincide with the story I am currently writing.

What is that, you ask?

Tell you later....