by Jenny Gates | Jun 24, 2021 | freelancing, stories
If you don’t recognise this once indispensable piece of office equipment, I don’t blame you. Scanners haven’t been getting as much love – or as much use – as they once did. Still, it’s hard letting this one go, given how it arrived...
by Jenny Gates | Jan 19, 2021 | conversations, freelancing
Some of the group workshopping with director Sarah Gavron (top centre). Twelve months ago, Zoom was not on my particular radar. Most meetings were in person, partly because that was how we did things, and also because a conversation over coffee was an opportunity to...
by Jenny Gates | Sep 8, 2020 | freelancing, storytelling, writing
The first words – in fact, the only words – I saw were Directing Mentorship. Everything else in the introductory paragraph blurred out as my imagination took me on a wild ride. Me, directing a play, at a major theatre company in my own backyard. For a brief moment, I...
by Jenny Gates | Aug 6, 2020 | freelancing
One of the things I’ve really missed these past few months is working in my favourite coffee spots – Thom Bargen, Café Postal, Miss Browns. A bit of an indulgence, for sure, but I thrive on the ambience in the room, the clatter of cups, coffee and plates,...
by Jenny Gates | Jul 22, 2020 | freelancing
I’ve always loved paper. Books over Kindle, yes, but also printing things off and writing things down on paper. I love writing on paper, particularly with a pencil, but as much as I love paper, sometimes it gets away from me. It piles up on the desk, the chair,...
by Jenny Gates | Jul 15, 2020 | conversations, editing, freelancing, music, projects, speaking, stories, website, words, writing
One of many creative writing spots that will be used in the next six months. Actually, it began 10 days ago, but it took a bit of time to get my mind around the fact I am taking the rest of the year off. Not from any book editing that comes my way, but from a whole...
