Mother Antonia: Emailed with Stacey about plans for a reading of the script.
Tag: Meeting
Meeting or having discussions with collaborators.
hearing the whole story
Everything Looks Like A Face: Talked with Elizabeth about plans for an informal reading of the book.
planning
Everything Looks Like A Face: Met with Elizabeth about the next steps for refining the book.
yer basic
Infrastructure: Got a rejection. Everything Looks Like A Face: Meeting at Nautilus with Elizabeth, Ben and Greg, the music director for the reading next week.
coalescing
Everything Looks Like A Face: Met with Elizabeth to further solidify what will be presented at Rough Cuts. Collated all the scenes and songs together. 60 pages! More than I thought.
good hustle
Mother Antonia: read Mary Ellen Chase’s A Goodly Fellowship, a memoir of her (Chase’s) teaching career. Her chapter on St. Catherine’s includes a widely-quoted paragraph about Mother Antonia (“[She] went at the realization of St. Catherine’s College with everything she had in her, and she had literally everything….She prayed while she hustled, and she hustled...
pattern recognition
Everything Looks Like A Face: Very productive meeting with Elizabeth. We start to see the larger patterns of give-and-take among the characters, and to sort out where there may be missing tiles in the “mosaic”. Erika: Did some problems. 11 skills away from the coveted Sally Ride badge.
paring down
Everything Looks Like A Face: Meeting with Elizabeth. Porting stuff from Draft to Google Drive. Making the scenes – the tiles of the mosaic – as small and self-contained as possible.
tiles, cont’d.
Mother Antonia: Got a little tour of CSC’s Our Lady of Victory chapel from Prof. Maryann Brenden, who has studied both it and M. Antonia, who caused it to be built. The chapel is lavish with tile work by Ernest Batchelder, a leader of the Arts and Crafts movement. I’ve read remarks to the effect...
little fragments
Everything Looks Like A Face: Meeting with Elizabeth. We decide the piece will be built like a mosaic. An arrangement of little fragments. Thought of titling this entry “tesserae,” but evidently that word belongs to The Hunger Games now. Mother Antonia: Took notes.