What comes next?

I. Grad school

• Nah
  
• No graduate creative writing program at MSU
  
• MSU graduate literature program is theory-heavy
  
• I hate critical theory
  
• I could only attend part-time
  
• Most graduate programs are not part-time friendly
  
• Working at a university, I could get a full tuition waiver/reimbursement
  
• So it seems silly to do nothing
  

II. Writing

• Yes!
  
• Uhm. . . how?
  
• Scripts
  
  
  
  1. Screen for Mattison
     
     
     
     • "Songbird" expansion/adaptation
       
     • "Meeks" (tells-the-future comedy)
       
     
     
  2. Stage for Hungerford
     
     
     
     • I love Tennessee Williams
       
     • Read, read, read
       
       
       
       1. Chekov
          
       2. Odetts
          
       3. Ibsen
          
       4. Pinter
          
       5. Others, I'm sure
          
       
       
     
     
  
  
• Stories
  
  
  
  1. I've had that photographer idea kicking around for a while
     
  2. Retail semi-comedies? (write what you know)
     
  3. Sentences first, then paragraphs
     
  
  

III. Reading

• More classics
  
• I'm sick of bad contemporary novels
  
• Find a way to find the good contemporary stuff now that I don't get free copies of the book reviews
  
• See list of playwrights cited above, add "Miss Julie," "The Lion in Winter," "A Man For All Seasons"
  

IV. New baby

• January 19
  
• 'Nuff said
  

V. Conclusions

• Give up on sleep
  
• But I like sleep
  
• Sissy
  
• That's just mean
  
• Well, why don't you curl up in bed then?
  
• Maybe I will
  
• That's too bad, because that's a really nice list you put together
  
• It is, isn't it?
  
• It would be a shame to see it not come to anything
  
• But I like sleep
  
• Sissy
  

(Apologies to Timothy Carmody and his "Outline For an Essay on Bulworth.")