Nothin’.
Category: The Project Diary
Six months of posting progress on plays in the hopper.
as predicted
Erika: did problems on Khan Academy. My manner of doing them earned me the Persistence badge, to give you some idea. Mother Antonia: got the notion that maybe the monologue should start with an invocation.
click!
Everything Looks Like A Face: Email exchange with Elizabeth about the characters and their jobs. One of them, we both feel strongly, is a glazier. It’s always exciting when something really clicks. Mother Antonia: Worked more on organizing notes. Did not know until starting this project that Percy Grainger knew some of the CSC faculty...
brainstorming, docketing
Infrastructure: Sent a script to a competition. Everything Looks Like a Face: Did some thinking about how the characters pay their bills. Mother Antonia: Organized some of my notes from Thursday.
predicting a lot of entries like this one, too
Nothin’. (Nothin’ but Smackdown.)
predicting a lot of days with entries like this
Erika: Watched video on Khan Academy.
laughing in the archives
Mother Antonia: spent the morning in the CSJ Archives. Somehow I did not expect to laugh frequently in the course of researching this project, but I have been. Today, for instance, there was this dry observation in Mary J. Oates’ “Sisterhoods and Catholic Higher Education” (in Tracy Schier and Cynthia Russett, eds. Catholic Women’s Colleges...
making statements, taking notes
Infrastructure: struggled through final paragraph of artist statement; sent application. Mother Antonia: noted down a timeline of events in her life to prepare for visit to Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet archives tomorrow. Getting this posted with less than an hour to spare!
The project diary
As an experiment, over the next six months, I’ll be posting brief daily updates on my current playwriting works-in-progress. I expect this will spur me to make progress in order to have something to report. I’ll also occasionally post programming information I’ve found helpful. Thanks for stopping by!