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Day 15 - the half-way mark.
Hello Rhinos... I imagine our own Josh Conkel is at the protests helping us all make the world an equal one so I am posting today's forum.. We, at Naplwrimo, support equality for all rhinos and hope you are doing your part, wherever you are...
We're half way through our marathon. It's not too late to catch up if you're behind. It's not too late to check-in. It's not too late to ask Dean how he did it ( we have our first winner folks , congratulate him !)
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In reviewing the video from the bus with the principal, he and my husband agreed that the "assault" was more of a shove and the kid who had, in fact, baited him really milked that shove for much more than it was worth. However, D was told he could not put his hands on anyone so a three day suspension from the bus is still fair. He seems okay. I'm actually now looking for a school, an experience, somewhere to go either for summer or for junior year or possibly both where he can get away from the daily fray and gain some independence and confidence, then ideally come back senior year (last year of secondary school) ready to mentally and emotionally take on the world and decide what he wants to do for university or art school or whatever.
I'm going along for my play. It's a lot of one line back and forth conversations. I don't know if that's good or bad. I guess not having a series of soliloquies is all right, but I wonder if I'm developing anything through all the back and forth in the courtroom or just adding to my page count -- which is the big 3-0. Hoping to get to 40 later today but the house is a pit and I need to turn my attention to that also.
Ash Sanborn, the playwriting nom de plume of Amy Hillgren Peterson. Playwright, restorative justice practitioner, life force
it will be okay. you will make it through. It's okay if you think it sucks, it's a first draft. it's allowed to suck. anyone will tell you the same thing.
not that it makes you feel any better of course, but at least you know you're not alone in this boat. I'm right there with you, fighting with the current.
How's your son?
that is all. *falls over asleep*
Haven't reached a page count of ten times any producible play as Grady did on page 2,000+ of his novel, but I do feel the pull that the more I write, the worse it becomes and while the story trudges on. I hope this is the work I do to earn the prize. Maybe not as literally as Michael Chabon, who slaved over his own "Grady" for five years before ultimately abandoning it, writing "Wonder Boys" about the experience, then writing "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay" which won him the Pulitzer Prize at age 38.
Ahem. Anyway...I'm content, with this being my freshman effort as an adult out of school, to write a producible play. Yet I won't be content until it's better than anything I've ever written before.
I won't go on for twenty paragraphs this time. I need to click back on Open Office and keep marching on through Brigid.
Carry on, everyone!!!
Ash Sanborn, the playwriting nom de plume of Amy Hillgren Peterson. Playwright, restorative justice practitioner, life force
it depends on the play i think. I mean, there's some endings that work well on ER that wouldn't work well on Law and Order. Are there any details you can give?
I am still chugging on a paper that's been eating my life away.
But I have more material for my show. What's weird is that so much of it is going to be movement so it's challenging to put it down on the page....
But I am taking inspiration from Dean and I am counting on Thanksgiving to help with the page count as well !
Go Rhino, go !
I dropped the ball today. I'm super sick but went to the protest anyway. It's been a weird day.
-Joshua
I think it depends on many things. If something more important or striking happens at the hospital ( ie, death or recovery or something major like that) then go with that. If the verdict in court is more surprising, I would go with that.
Of course having not read your play, it's hard to answer, but I guess I would go with the one where a larger revelation or transformation occurs. Typically.
Go Rhino, go !
58 pages...It seems like a lot, but I got a fatter page count when I re-formated to make double spaces after names and between bits, so I'm not braggin'.
There are five scenes so far, with number six being the Grand Finale.
(gulp)
I have to do some research before I tackle the Big Ending, but just a quick poll - what has more grab, the hospital or the court, [ Grey's Anatomy or Boston Legal?]
Thumper