Today I took the afternoon off so I could finish writing these plays. I completely scratched my previous drafts of the play (heretofore known as both Into Eternity and Shadowpaint), rewrote it from the ground up, and dubbed it Alchemy, which fits in a lot better with the changes I’ve made. The idea behind the play — that God can take whatever bad things happen and turn them into good — is one I’m really fond of lately, but whether the play actually gets that across is yet to be seen. It would’ve been nice to have more time to revise. This is what happens when I wait until right before the deadline. :)
Speaking of right before the deadline, I wrote most of the second play, Safe and Sound, in the hour before midnight. (Backstory: I went to the library Saturday afternoon and checked out some Jorge Luis Borges. On my walk home, I decided I wanted to write about something verging on supernatural. While Safe and Sound doesn’t actually have any supernatural happenings, it’s about that.) Granted, I spent a couple hours over the past few days freewriting and thinking about the play, and then earlier this evening I spent an hour writing a quick draft of what was originally the first scene, so it wasn’t completely done in this last hour. But most of it was. It’s been a madcap dash to the finish line, and again, I wish I’d had some time to revise. Oh well. I’ll keep my fingers crossed.
And I’m getting excited for Script Frenzy next month. :)