Fast Fiction

Late last fall a few bits of my one published play came out in two anthologies. I still haven’t been paid for this (note to self - send note to publisher). But I digress.

On Friday I got a fan note.

Really.

Here’s the best part:

Just wanted to drop a note because I was looking for monologues and found one of yours in the 2004 Best Men’s Stage Monologues.

Your writing is amazing.  You know, you go through these monologue books and the pieces just don’t seem to stand up on there own but yours…it sucked me in! I studied acting some 16 years ago and haven’t worked on the stage for about 8 years.  I wanted to get back to the craft and am currently taking a monologue audition class.  So anyway, I’ve been going crazy trying to find a monologue that I can connect with…then I read Stewart from Redeemer…powerful, so many levels of emotion in one speech (his confession about the accident).

-Michael

Whee! I have to remember to write more fan letters. I imagine everyone needs to hear stuff like that on a regular basis.