Day 6 – Starting the writing

Target: 10 pages
Achieved: 7 pages
Current Status: 3 pages behind schedule

I’ve got a problem.

The scenario might not be long enough. I may not have put enough detail in it.

And reading it back to myself, one of the characters may be a little too aggressive.

I could very easily have written the required 10 pages tonight, but I would have ended up compressing the play too much and have very little scope to move forward tomorrow.

As I see it, I have too choices – and in reality, I think that I’m going to do both. First, I can review the scenario and see where I need to extend the plot and conflicts. Second, I have to increase the comedic input to temper the aggression of this character.

When I was writing the scenario, I saw this moving away from a comic drama into a pure drama. But once the characters started talking to me as I was writing, their voices weren’t quite what I expected.

So rather than plug on – it’s time to review. And I’ll have far more time to do that tomorrow night, seeing as it isn’t a school night.

I’d sooner be 3 pages behind schedule that walking away from the PC thinking that this play is going to be a failure. And from the quality of the dialogue so far, it isn’t going to be that.

On a more positive note, there’s a chance that one of the other RN clubs might produce my one-act play Folio. It’s being reviewed for it’s potential this evening, so I might have some good news to post tomorrow.