A few weeks ago I was in the DC area and was telling a couple of friends about the play I'm working on. One friend said the story makes him think of Bluegrass because of how soulful and mournful it is (inspired by old Scottish and Irish ballads and gospel, blues and jazz). Bluegrass deals with the supernatural - ghost stories or stories of obsessive love and death and weird transformations (The Wind and Rain), or spiritual enlightenment or release from the body and material concerns. And so now: the obsession with Bluegrass.
When the writing process is working for me, I'm getting all kind of these little gifts and they end up either solving problems with a play I'm working on or taking me deeper into the story (usually the latter, well okay: both, often both). I'm always so grateful for these unexpected sources of inspiration and to those lovely people who inspire me.
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