Mother Antonia: Sent off draft 2. Sometimes when I’m doing a project that’s heavy on research there will be some little factoid that I painstakingly puzzle out, only to find that it was presented explicitly in some other source I had already read. Today I had that experience with my “discovery” that S. Ste. Helene...
Tag: Writing
Actually placing words of a script on paper or screen.
M.A. & PBK
Mother Antonia: Finding places to expand and elaborate. Took a look at the correspondence between S. Antonia and the Phi Beta Kappa gatekeepers. I get the impression they were intimidated by her. Perhaps because (for instance) when invited to give input on their assessment, she goes at it paragraph by paragraph.
snapshot 1904
Mother Antonia: Worked on draft 2. Ran into an unexpected obstacle when I tried to come up with a snapshot of women’s rights in Minnesota in 1904. Obviously women couldn’t vote in state and national elections, but what else were they formally barred from doing on the basis of sex? There are lists like this...
comma mater
Everything Looks Like A Face: Sketched out an overture/montage/dumb show to establish the out-of-chronological-order storytelling style of the mosaic version. Mother Antonia: Did some reading in S. Helen Angela Hurley’s On Good Ground: The Story of the Sisters of St. Joseph in St Paul to try to get back in the groove; new draft due...
connective
Everything Looks Like A Face: Wrote the narrative bits to link the songs together for Rough Cuts and sent them to the team. Erika: Watched another video on optimization.
context is everything
Everything Looks Like A Face: Wrote a synopsis to be used at the Rough Cuts performance to put the songs in context. We have two potential ways to order the scenes: chronological, and what we’re calling “mosaic order” – linked by structure, subject matter or imagery. There are two Rough Cuts performances, so we’re planning...
running to stay in place
Erika: Did some problems. After almost two weeks away, I un-master old skills just as fast as I master new ones; so even after a chunk of time working on problems, I am no closer to the next badge. Harumph. Everything Looks Like A Face: Worked with Elizabeth to refine/clarify the draft and sent it...
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.
one down
Mother Antonia: Sent in the first, very rough draft.
playing by the rules (not)
Mother Antonia: Drafting. Reading the 1884 Constitutions of the Sisters of St. Joseph. How radical was S. Antonia being, sending Sisters off around the world to pursue advanced studies, without – evidently – so much as a by-your-leave? Very, it seems. Sisters weren’t supposed to leave the house without express permission from the Superior. S....