The Last Game: In Collision Course, I’ve reached Reagan’s ultimatum to the striking controllers – return to work in 48 hours, or you are fired. When he writes about critical decision points for the controllers, McCartin will give brief quotes from their wives which evoke a great deal about what their dinner table conversations must...
Author: Anne
the cosmic ocean
The Last Game: Revising. A mention of Carl Sagan has made its way in. I didn’t really plan to put it there, but it seems another good indicator of the time period, like the air traffic controllers’ strike. Reading more of Collision Course.
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suppose your favorite doomsday scenario
The Last Game: Did some reading in Collision Course. Started revising. There is definitely a mental threshold between planning to start revising and actually revising, and it takes me some energy to get over it. Then, once I’m over that threshold, I don’t want to leave writing-land. The blog post title is, as of today,...
prunestone
Mother Antonia: 6 hours at the Sisters of St. Joseph Archive. A little while ago, the archivist got in touch to ask if the play would include anything about Mother Antonia’s relationship with Sister Ste. Helene? Because they just happen to be working on processing Ste. Helene’s papers….So spent most of the day reading Ste....
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big names
The Last Game: Reading Collision Course. Evidently the formation of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization advanced quite rapidly after a controller at La Guardia recognized that the private jet he was handling was piloted by F. Lee Bailey. He got in touch with him later. Mother Antonia: Finished taking notes on Liberating Sanctuary. An...
The Temporary Thesis
A scrap from Liability. In “Liability,” Emmett’s character description is “A Sumerologist, currently temping.” When I first started working on that script, I was fascinated by different writing systems, including Emmett’s specialty, Sumerian cuneiform. Early drafts probably had too much about Emmett’s specialty; at any rate, over time, many references to his work got trimmed...
might go farther and fare/for worse
It’s All Good: Brainstorming about the title for the pair of monologues. “For Worse” is a candidate.