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Ann Herendeen

Queering the romance, from Phyllida to Jane Austen--and beyond 

From Phyllida's Desk

In Praise of Boredom

April 20, 2015
Tags: boredom, creativity, reading, writing, Imagination, Poetry, fiction
A friend, one of those rare, almost mythical beings who reads fiction but has no desire to write it, once asked me if was true that a writer needs to have a boring life.

I said yes.


In the past couple of days there have been several articles in the NY Times that reminded  Read More 
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Play recommendation: Muerte Subita

June 14, 2012
Tags: creativity, theater, Muerte Subita, writing
"Andres is passionately writing his third novel." That's the deceptively benign situation of Muerte Subita* (Sudden Death), the exhilarating--and frightening--play by noted Mexican playwright Sabina Berman that has just three performances left at the Gershwin Hotel in New York City. If you are a writer, an artist, or anybody who enjoys intimate, perfectly realized theater productions, you won't want to miss Muerte Subita.  Read More 
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Becoming Lady Amalie

September 28, 2010
Tags: Transformation, creativity, writing, performing, comedy
Readers of my LiveJournal blog may have noticed that my user name is Ann_Amalie. Some may have wondered where that came from. When I first started to write (fanfiction set in a sword-and-sorcery world), “Amalie” was my alter ego. She was a telepath, a misfit, who comes to this fantasy world in  Read More 
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