the more and more i’m getting into this journey and realization that i need to be a playwright, the more and more i’m falling in love with the theater. i just love to be around it and thinking about it. i love watching plays and musicals. i love being around other people who love theater. i’m actually reading more books on how to be a playwright as well as listening and watching podcasts produced by the American Theater Wing on playwrights and their views on being a playwright. it’s like a course in it, i’m like diving into it head first.
i’m still up re-writing my script, Garden of Dreams. Yup, i’ve shortened the title once again, and maybe 85% sure that this title will stick. I have a writing workshop with PKG tomorrow at his place in berkeley, where i am more than ready to be torn to shreds! i have a couple of things that STILL doesn’t make sense to me that i need to iron out before sending this script to my cast. a couple of questions:
– why doesn’t DOC want to help R.J. right away? Actually, I kinda have this answered. It sucks cuz i had to cut out one of my lines that I really loved, but it needed to be done 🙁
– i want to build more of Jasen’s character. It started out that he’s fine without having any direction in life while R.J. is the complete opposite, yet they are still best of friends. urgh, this isn’t making sense, but it’s something i want to explore.
– i hope that the new scene between DOC and R.J. will work without it being to cliche. we’ll just have to see.
– build R.J.’s arc. that’s a little harder to grasp, but it’s definitely rollin’ around in my noggin.
yun lang. that’s it.
i started this idea from my “writer’s matchbook”. it’s a book FULL of really short phrases or plots that will start a fire of imagination for a writers next work. anyways, here’s the idea that’s sticking and burning to be read… “a man and a women find a bloody knife underneath their staircase” that’s it, but i have an awesome story for it… START WRITING! 🙂
oh…. i’m gonna see avenue q with a good friend next week 🙂 love the show and i hope she likes it too! night, inkernet!