Writing

This NAPLWRIMO thing - I'm twenty pages in and holding very, very tight. No pages. I somehow lost track of time. I planned to have my thesis finished so that I'd have November to write. I planned to do a little research/cut-up work on the play, so's I'd be ready in November. Then November 1 arrives and I'm completely shocked. How did that happen? Those twenty pages are solid. I just don't know what this beast is yet and I don't want to resort to habits in order to crank out a script by the 30th. Still, I'm not worried. If I finish fine. If not, I'm further along than I was.

I also vowed that I wouldn't write the play at the expense of my thesis. So, what does that tell you? I haven't written much thesis either, but I have made progress. I'm strenuously interested in finishing the chapter I'm working on by this weekend and it looks entirely possible.

This month I've sent my screenplay out to three different contests. Who knows? Its amazing how much mileage I've gotten out of it and yet, I'm keenly aware that it is in desperate need of a rewrite. That won't happen 'til long about summer.

Have you read this?

I put the thing in about my screenplay so you (yes, you) would know that I can indeed finish things. My thesis notwithstanding.