finish my play

Handing it on Monday! Just have to write up the premise/project description.
I better get a good mark, if I don’t get an H1 (First class honours, an A) I’ll be pissed off. My tutour really liked it an raved about it a bit, but she did say that it would be better if it was “actually about something”, as in had a deeper meaning to it. I think it does have a deeper meaning, it’s to do with the protection of the environment, I just didn’t want to push that to the centre of it too much because I didn’t want it to be preachy. It’s a snowball comedy, preachy doesn’t get laughs.

I finished my first draft of my 10 minute lay for my script writing class :) I submitted it to Short and sweet (An Australian short play competetion) I’m not really expect much from that considering the best playwrights from around Australia enter it and this is this the first play I’ve ever written, but I thought I’d submit it any way -maybe they’ll love it? Now I just need to tweak it :)

because I know nothing of writing plays. So when I’ve completed at least a semester of my playwriting class, I may resume this goal.

I was doing Script Frenzy, where people are challenged to write a 20,000 word play during the month of June and I finished it just in time! I was so proud of myself.

SIIIIGH. The moment of writing “curtain” was wonderful. Now its the sickness, the remorse, the fear of it being lost…

I am loving writing this! That’s all I wanted to say…

The first draft was 300 pages of retching.
The 2nd Draft is not bad, but still does not work.I spent some time on structure. Problem/Need, Incitiing Incident, Desire, Oponent, Battle, Self Reveleation, New Equilibrium.

The third Act is compelling. The first 2 are yawns.
Goal is to have a staged reading by feb 20th.

So now I am on the 3rd draft.
Rewrites are all about craftmanship they say, so I am looking at it technically. What is the central dramatic question? I really can’t answer that clearly. What’s the inciting incident? He gets fired. But it happens in scene 4! So what is the audience to do until that?
I get little brainwaves, get all excited, put them up on the board and then shit, they don’t work. I’m thinking today that his self revelation is that his weakness is that he is a child inside or that he refused to grow up and take self responsibility. It answers the question. Do we have to be grown up? What are the consequences of that.
My goal

I’ve been working on the greatest play of all time for two years now. Maybe I should finish it.