For Worse: When I make a decision about one thing, it sometimes cascades. Michelle (Stacey’s character) is substitute teaching. The lesson plan she’s been given includes a list of vocabulary items. The list as I first drafted it didn’t seem to be organized in any way. I make a decision about how to organize it....
Tag: Writing
Actually placing words of a script on paper or screen.
ending is better than mending, Mr. Darcy
For Worse: Working on Stacey’s monologue. Thanks to an article by James R. Baker, learned the startling fact that the screenplays for the 1940 Pride and Prejudice and the 1943 Jane Eyre were written by Aldous Huxley. Got a live lead on a great stage manager. Fingers crossed.
first thought best thought
For Worse: It’s official – this is the Fringe show title.
effulgence, flink, whelming
Mother Antonia: Phone call with Anya to hear her thoughts & questions. A foray into the CSJ’s digital archive to try to get a better handle on the limits on where and when the Sisters could leave the house; the Sister at the reading last night pointed out that the community tended to be pretty...
to-do list
The Last Game: Talked with Heather H. about her observations of/suggestions for the script. Among other thoughts, she raises the idea of a second act set some decades into the future. This doesn’t click for me; though it’s difficult to pick apart how much it fails to click on its own merits, and how much...
bacchae
The Last Game: Put a few last touches on the new draft and sent it to Heather H. It’s All Good: Bought a used casebook copy of Lord of the Flies. Have learned that Golding was a schoolmaster (!!! – like Stacey’s character, Michelle) and that one of his sources was The Bacchae (!!!!). In...
go Finches!
The Last Game: Put in a chunk of time revising. (The Darwin Prep Finches are the home team, hence the post title.) It’s All Good: Still working on recruiting the creative team. Still need a title for the pair of monologues.
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.
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,...
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.