Day 30: November 30th 2009 DAY THE FINAL

Yep. I'll remove it from public eye. When you're ready... edit the file and upload the new one and let me know and i"ll make it public again. okay ?

Thank you, Miss Rhino!

Can I clean it up a little before it goes public? I hope that's not cheating, but to explain, I hit a huge artery of new ideas at 8ish last night. Hence my hurry to finish, since I was writing entirely new scenes to go in the new direction.

Let me know if this is possible. And I'll write a synopsis, too! :)

Thank you!

Congratulations, Smashley!

So at the end, the fact that I was involved in re-writes on a musical I did at the Fringe, a 20th anniversary event for a local feminist theatre group, and, of course, WORK [ptooey!]...I didn't finish. I made 80 pages, cut it back to start over, and then got stuck and the time just ran out.

However, the experience made me work on the play instead of just doing endless research, it made me meet characters I didn't know existed, it has caused me to re-structure it, perhaps, or to at least consider a different means of telling the story...

So I say that whether you finish or not, the Rhino Month is invaluable for pulling the rip cord, starting the engine, kicking your butt down the slope, etc. and it makes you think about yourself as a playwright for one solid month.

So thank you Rhinos and thank you Dorothy! All the best to everyone!

Shelley

Christine,

No worries, you won! I saw it, it was there... :)

Do you want it public ?

My slow computer decided to keep me from the finish line by a matter of second.  Okay, I shouldn't have waited until the last second, but I finished!  So where's my play?

I ask because I wanted to edit my lame synopsis...  I didn't have time.  I literally had seconds on the clock.

And I think my play was considered entered on December 1st.

I'm heartbroken.  Please help.

I'm so glad it worked out for you. Congratulations~!

You did it, awesome!!!

I did it! I think I was technically thirty seconds late (thank you slow computer's operating system), but I finished. I wrote more pages this past week than I thought I ever could with a holiday and work and family. Congrats to everyone that participated!

I know that my play still has a long ways to go, but there are a lot of aspects that I'm proud of. So if you get a chance, please enjoy my play "Related Strangers." I look forward to checking out some of your plays! Woo hoo!

All,

Thank you for allowing a newbie to have some fun. Wicked growth and began to learn how not to self-edit at first draft. Powerful stuff.

Best,

William

# 30 #

Okay, I started a brand new play for this project. I wrote about 25 new pages. However, sometime around mid-November, I had table reading for the first act of another play I've been working on for a while. The reading went so well, I decided to scratch the one I started and write act II of the other one. Currently on page 69 (act II begins on page 45ish) and making progress. I feel like I need to finish this before I return to the new play.

All the same, I don't feel like uploading a work in progress, so I'll be happy calling myself a participate.

I'll do this again next year and see how I do...

Aah yes, that's right!

Well if you want, you are always welcome to host it yourself and post a link in the forums or something like that !

Still quite an achievement. :)

No, sorry, it's not a brand new play. I'd done quite a bit of work on it before November. I did put this aside to try avoiding a bit of paralysis, and just start with a blank page again. But it does mean I've broken the rules.

Even if you don't want your play to be public, you need to upload it (it will be for your eyes and the admin's eyes only) to be listed as 1 of the winnners...

Congratulations!!!

After every possible technical error in the book, the play is finally recorded, but it needs to be spliced together. TOMORROW, it will be done, and up, and glorious!

90 pages! Way to go! Are you finished? Then you won!

I now have 90 pages, and albeit that there are some continuity problems, unwanted verbiage about indigenous art, and unclear jumps in motivation at times - I do have a completed script.

This is quite a big step forward for me, having started twenty or more plays over the last few years without getting to this point.

So while there's lots more work to do, this feels like the big milestone. For me, the editing phase feel like the easiest bit. And I'm determined not to be producer and director and sound operator this time round; I've learned that lesson.

I'm a rebel this year, but I'm planning to put that right in 2010.

Still feel like a winner though.

Thanks everyone.