Playwriting

Finished early!

September 28, 2011

I apologize for my blog-silence over the last while. Every time I had the urge to write something here, I forcefully channeled it into a focus on my playwriting instead. The benefit, though, is that the complete first draft of my play — still titled Entropy — is now finished. I’ve brought it in at [...]

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A bit of re-ordering for the sake of Entropy

August 2, 2011
This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Creating Entropy

Work on Entropy is proceeding rather well, I think, with a solid amount of progress in the last week. There was a bunch of “low-hanging fruit” in the script that I wanted to address — fleshing out character interactions, for example, and improving connections between scenes — and the next phase of the work is [...]

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The middle bits

July 21, 2011
This entry is part 2 of 3 in the series Creating Entropy

When I finished my draft of Entropy last fall, I knew it was incomplete. I knew what the situation was, what I thought the central conflict was; how it started and how it would end; and some of how I wanted the style to work… but there was a lot of meat missing in the [...]

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Permission granted

July 14, 2011
This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series Creating Entropy

I’ve had this play, tentatively titled “Entropy”, rattling around in my head for a couple of years now. Last fall, I challenged myself to finish a draft during a gap in employment, and although I managed the feat, the results were sloppy. Finding the time to write something like a play can be hard. It [...]

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