Author: Janet Flora
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Teaching Gotham Writers’ Workshop
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When I teach for Gotham Writers’ Workshop, often I use the same or a similar curriculum for a class. However, no two classes are the same because each student brings something different, and I learn almost as much as my students, as they learn from me. In the summer of…
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The Make-Up Chair
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A woman deals with the death of her best girlfriend, which is complicated by her friendship with the dead friend’s husband.
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THE GOOD-BYE CEREMONY
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A daughter explains how she and her family cope with her mother’s suicide after the mother is diagnosed with terminal cancer. Winner of the 2004 Willow Review Award for prose.
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IN LIEU OF FLOWERS
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A woman explains how she remembers and honors her parents’ lives and their deaths.
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Belongings
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Soon after a friend has passed away, a woman vacillates about keeping, and wearing some of the friend’s belongings.
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You’re Too Smart For That
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A woman in her 30s gives instructional advice about romantic relationships.
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Banging on Doors
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When the parents of a man in his 20s decide to sell their home and move to a retirement community, he is forced to confront his future and his past, and what leaving his small hometown might mean.
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Waiting for Lena
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An 82-year-old woman, still living with her twin sister examines their relationship and how it has affected her life.
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It’s not what you think
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A woman deals with the death of her best girlfriend, which is complicated by her friendship with the dead friend’s husband.
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I finished the second draft and I’m working on the third
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This is what it looks like. I love seeing the amount of pages, it’s a physical manifestation of my hard work. I think now about all the words that go into each draft…the R words…revise, re-visit, re-imagine, refine. More to come.
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I finished my first draft
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I have not blogged in a long time. That changes now. I wrote a book, a novel. While every writer wants to be published, I’m no exception. But I am enjoying this moment of completion. I am halfway through the second draft.
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Learning Curve
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The more I work on my story, the better I know my characters. I can actually see them as I write. It is as if I have entered their lives, their world.
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I’m writing a novel
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I’m writing a novel, and almost finished with the first draft! What has worked for me is working on scenes. Thus, I am not necessarily writing it sequentially. Instead I’m working on important scenes, and then deciding where they fit in the narrative.
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Painting The Pride Backstage at “The Lion King”
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If you imagine working as a makeup artist on “The Lion King” for its 26-year run—8 shows a week—with (thankfully) no closing in sight, might be a “punishing” schedule you’d be right. In fact, that’s the word head makeup artist Elizabeth Cohen used to describe her tenure on the show…
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Dean Of Make-Up: Richard Dean
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Leading ladies such as Julia Roberts have come to rely on Richard Dean to develop looks based on the psychology behind the character.
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Scott Andrew Profile
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The iconic Makeup Artist Scott Andrew has over 100 Allure covers to his credit.
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Behind The Mask
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Since Michael Crawford performed the title role in The Phantom of the Opera’s Broadway opening in January 1988, there have been 12 actors who have played the starring role. Although the actors differed with the performances, the same woman has been behind all the men’s masks: make-up artist Thelma Pollard.
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Wicked
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Joe Dulude II, make-up artist on the Tony-award winning musical “Wicked,” can safely say, “It’s not easy being green.”
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Hobnobbing At Megna Glass Studio
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Magnificent home accessories, doorknobs and cabinet pulls are made on the East End by master glass blower Martin Megna.
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Design At The Top Of The Stairs
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Interior designer, Penny Drue Baird, whose work is featured regularly in Architectural Digest splits a bedroom in half for the Kips Bay Decorator Show House.
