So, here on April 23, I've reached the intermission of MISS, a new full length play. During the 30 Day Challenge, I didn't actually write for about two weeks as I wrapped up the school year - which included finals and the Belhaven Theatre Festival (during which I had readings of two different works).
Miss has been an interesting process, taking much more time than I'd wanted to. I had hopes of repeating my feat of writing a first draft very quickly - Anathema's first draft was done in just over a week (with many rewrites to come afterward). This one has been much slower in developing, and still, though I've reached half-way, there's a lot I don't know about what's going to happen later in the play.
But so far, I think there's something interesting in this play that I can continue to mine. Sometimes, I can get 15-20 pages out and then I'm no longer interested in these people.
Now that work has lightened up, the hope is that I can get back to writing every day, and perhaps reach the end of this story soon (at least before the end of April...). With so many other projects on the burners for this summer, it would be ideal to at least get this off my plate ASAP. Then it can sit in a drawer for a while.
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Sunday, March 31, 2013
Updates and Upcoming...
Who'd of thought that my first post for 2013 would be Easter Sunday...
Since my last posts were regarding Granite, an update would be worthwhile: the internet staged reading and subsequent publication are still forthcoming, after a couple of setbacks in that process on the administrative end. I do hope that good news is on the way on that front.
I have a couple of projects that I've agreed to and are in various stages of progress, and I will be updating information about those as time wears on - some of them are yet to be announced officially, some are more exploratory, so we'll leave those for now.
Here's what's coming up in the next few weeks.
Two staged readings during the Belhaven Theatre Festival next week:
Granite will be read on Tuesday, April 9 at 7:15pm along with a script by John Maxwell called Mary and Martha. John and I will be a part of discussion afterward about writing plays that deal with faith.
The Long Surrender will be read on Thursday, April 11 at 7:30pm.
In the meantime, the next major project that I'm taking on is the 30-Day Writing Challenge for the month of April. This is an inaugural event in honor of the late Jack Gilbert, who previously ran ScriptFrenzy, a one month screenwriting challenge. This is a group of Frenzy-ists doing this in honor of Jack.
So, the plan is to write every day during April. Which means this starts tomorrow.
I have decided that I didn't want to do too much pre-work, so I haven't been mapping the plot out, or anything like that. But I do think that I'm going to write based on an idea I had last summer during the Glen East playwriting workshop with Arlene Hutton. I have long since lost all of my notes on that idea, so I'm largely starting over, but the base of the story is a rocky return home for a small-town Mississippi girl who'd ran away to Chicago.
So, you're likely to see some updates on here - maybe not daily, but I'm going to try to journal through the process, post when I reach markers (act break, finished draft). Who knows - if I finish a draft of one play, I may start another one...
Since my last posts were regarding Granite, an update would be worthwhile: the internet staged reading and subsequent publication are still forthcoming, after a couple of setbacks in that process on the administrative end. I do hope that good news is on the way on that front.
I have a couple of projects that I've agreed to and are in various stages of progress, and I will be updating information about those as time wears on - some of them are yet to be announced officially, some are more exploratory, so we'll leave those for now.
Here's what's coming up in the next few weeks.
Two staged readings during the Belhaven Theatre Festival next week:
Granite will be read on Tuesday, April 9 at 7:15pm along with a script by John Maxwell called Mary and Martha. John and I will be a part of discussion afterward about writing plays that deal with faith.
The Long Surrender will be read on Thursday, April 11 at 7:30pm.
In the meantime, the next major project that I'm taking on is the 30-Day Writing Challenge for the month of April. This is an inaugural event in honor of the late Jack Gilbert, who previously ran ScriptFrenzy, a one month screenwriting challenge. This is a group of Frenzy-ists doing this in honor of Jack.
So, the plan is to write every day during April. Which means this starts tomorrow.
I have decided that I didn't want to do too much pre-work, so I haven't been mapping the plot out, or anything like that. But I do think that I'm going to write based on an idea I had last summer during the Glen East playwriting workshop with Arlene Hutton. I have long since lost all of my notes on that idea, so I'm largely starting over, but the base of the story is a rocky return home for a small-town Mississippi girl who'd ran away to Chicago.
So, you're likely to see some updates on here - maybe not daily, but I'm going to try to journal through the process, post when I reach markers (act break, finished draft). Who knows - if I finish a draft of one play, I may start another one...
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