We had our closing performance of the show — Lost and Found — tonight. The house was more full than it had been for any of the other five performances, and the audience was great — very receptive, they laughed a lot, and overall it was just an amazing way to end the show.

And we even had a lot of questions and comments about my play Safe and Sound during the talkback session. :) (Usually there aren’t that many.) And to my surprise, we won third place again! (It had been looking like one of the other plays was pretty solidly in third.) Not to mention that the play I assistant directed, Prodigal Son, won first place. It was a very good night. :)

Anyway, on my walk back home from the theater, I realized that I already miss it. And it had only been five minutes! (Well, plus cleaning up the building afterwards.) The cast and crew are great, the project is great, the audiences are great, and the plays are great. I love New Play Project so much. Seriously. It’s like my new extended family. And I already know that I’m going to be going through withdrawals within a few days. Time to write some more plays… :) (Yeah, I kind of haven’t done much of anything on my Script Frenzy piece.)

Oh, and thanks to all of you who came! I really appreciated it. And to the rest of you, well, there’ll be plenty more to come. :)

Script Frenzy has begun. One hundred pages in thirty days. Here we go. :)

You know, I actually completely forgot about it until this morning, when I realized it was April 1 and thus the beginning of the frenzied scriptwriting. I almost decided not to do it, because I’ve got a few other writing projects going on. But I seem to be able to write around five pages of script per hour, which means I shouldn’t have any problem pumping out a hundred pages by the end of the month — in theory it would only take ten days at two hours a day. Piece of cake. In theory. :)

An hour ago I sat myself down to come up with an idea for it, and I think it’s going to revolve around a BYU student ward, particularly two apartments (four guys and four girls, with one central character from each). I’ve drafted out the basic plot arc, but I need to do a lot more plotting and character development before I start writing. No title yet.

This’ll be my first full-length play, though. Part of me wonders if I can do it. Luckily the other part of me is doing a very good job at silencing the first part. Heck, I’d never written a novel before November, but I did it. And I do have playwriting experience. It’ll be a fun adventure. (I’ve wanted to start writing longer plays anyway. I’ll keep writing short ones, of course, but I don’t want to limit myself to that.)

So now I’m working on this play, my Encyclopedia play, and those seven plays in seven days that I haven’t started yet. And a few stories and my War in Heaven novel. It’s good to keep busy. :P