The first play was written the morning of May 20, the last one complete around 1 am on June 4. 15 days, 94 pages. 14 stories. All written at my dining room table.
The longest play is 9 pages, the shortest has 6. Yes, they are 'just scenes' in terms of length, but I'd be hard pressed to think that there's more to the story to be told in any of them. All but one of them have just 2 characters on stage (a couple of voices that could be recorded) - the final play has 9 speaking characters, but it's a fable, and could well be done with 3 actors. Simple sets - relatively low tech (even the most high-tech one has a low-tech alternative). I even had restraint enough to keep from writing moments where someone overturns a table full of marbles* (or anything like that).
I'm feeling quite relieved - the final play did not turn out to be as difficult as I feared. I worried that the idea of culminating the whole project with a final play would get in my head and block me up, but deciding (while listening to the song, Favorite Time of Light - in fact, a bonus track when you buy the album online) that it could be like a children's fable, purposely different from everything else, then it was easy to just take this play as its own thing, and not bother with the pressure of having to wrap it all together with a little bow. Surrendering. My own little lesson from this project.I can't say I know exactly what to do with all of this now - certainly, I have to go back and read the whole thing all together, and see what it is I've actually done. We'll see how I feel about it at that point. But even if it all comes to nothing - I think I've gained a lot from the attempt. And that makes me satisfied.
* mental note: write someone overturning a table full of marbles into the next play...
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