One Down…. __ to go
Well, I finally managed to finish the first draft of my short story. Which is an accomplishment in itself. The story has been percolating in my brain for…well, almost 5 years. In December, I decided that I wanted to actually tell the story (which I first made up as a really quick story for Gwen many years ago). I had unrealistically hoped to finish it by Christmas, but that didn’t work out. I am happy that I managed to finish it. Now I’m going to set it aside for a little bit. I’ve asked a few people to look at it, and I’ll take their constructive criticism and see what I can do with it.
Next up, a verse play. I’m taking some time to research Iambic Pentameter before I get started on it, and also taking care to plot out the scenes and structure before I start writing, as I don’t want to get hung on those things while struggling with verse and meter.
I’ve also been doing some thinking about Script Frenzy, which is like NaNoWriMo, but with scripts. I’m not sure what I want to write for that. I’m not going to write the verse play for SF, because that’s going to take more than a month to do. I have a play that I’ve tried to write several times, but I’ve never been able to gain momentum on it. And then, I’ve often thought about writing a one-man play. But I’m not sure how I want to go about that, or what topic I want to cover. I’m a fan of Daniel MacIvor’s one person shows, like See Bob Run, Wild Abandon, House and Here Lies Henry. I find those plays extremely engaging, and mesmerizing. Watching House (as I had the privilege of doing last year), MacIvor’s character of Victor was completely engaging. The same could be said of the characters in the other plays I listed. I do prefer that style of one-actor show to the other kind: where the single actor embodies many characters over the coarse of the play. I’ve enjoyed these kinds of shows in the past, but I never find them quite as engrossing and mesmerizing as the other. And that’s the kind of one-actor show I’d want to write. I’m not quite sure what it should be about though.
I’ll come up with something, eventually. I’d better not procrastinate too much though. Script Frenzy will come along faster than I think, and if I’m not careful, I’ll be caught unaware.
