In the mid-1990s, I spent some time temping as a legal document coder. Those were the days when it was so expensive to scan and OCR documents that it was cheaper to hire armies of temps to read documents and type the names in those documents into a database optimized for searching names. One of...
Tag: Writing
Actually placing words of a script on paper or screen.
Dreadnought
A while ago, I mentioned getting feedback from a fellowship application panel. This winter, I worked on revising the script based on their observations. The proof copy for the revised version arrived today. (The script is available here – or download it here.) Sometimes in the midst of a revision, I’ll realize I already have...
you know what makes kindergarten possible? recess.
For Worse: revised Michelle’s monologue. Not as gnarly as I feared. The subject line is one of hers.
the problem of other minds
The Last Game: Talked with Heather H. about the latest draft. At her request, I added some dialog at the very beginning between 23 and 24, giving a swatch of their relationship up to this catastrophic day. Writing it felt very much against the grain, though I can see now that it’s useful. The conversation...
too old for this
The Last Game: Revising till 2:30 AM Sunday.
revenge of the Peace Valley Friends
The Last Game: Revising. Moved Dori’s Mom’s big speech earlier, as Heather advised, and later in the day suddenly see how she will take her revenge against substitute coach Mrs. Wallace. Sometimes it seems there is no end to the tinkering that can be done.
those 3 little words: “end of play”
For Worse: Finished draft 1.
plugging away
For Worse: Working on Michelle’s one-woman version of The Bacchae.
agon
For Worse: Michelle has reached the last word in the vocabulary lesson: antagonism.
backstory
For Worse: Now I know how Greg and Michelle met. As Greg puts it in the course of making the case that Michelle would not suffer in silence if she were upset with him, I met her at a party freshman year, she was reaming out my roommate for putting the plastic from a six-pack...