What I mean about blind writing is that I began writing this script, Standing Above Pajaro, about two years ago and while I have my notes a out the play on my home computer, which I’m currently away from, I’m rewriting what I have of the script from memory. It’s going pretty well but now I’m near the climax of the story and it feels like it’s kinda falling apart because I don’t have my notes on what’s going to happen next.
But overall, I’m happy with the pacing of the dialogue, which is more my style. Which is to say that, I’m incorporating the LaBute quickfire overlapping (using his same script shorthand / at the point of overlappage) while paying close attention to how much to reveal and Jeanie’s rules of what every line needs to do: 1) push the story along, 2) describe the charter and 3) show/infer action. If the line does neither of these three, kill it!
So hopefully, I can present this at a Wordy Word to hear this skeleton script: how it fits together before adding flesh/soul/meat to the play.
My goal on this vacation is to finish this one as well as a re-write of Boys Don’t Bake Cake.
Ciao for now!