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...