managing the stress and NaPlWriMo '09
Quick update. The stress is a bit more manageable now. I missed the set strike last Sunday because I wasn't feeling well (see previous entry about how I stress myself into feeling sick :P). I wrote a new ten-minute play last week and got some good feedback on it. It still needs a better ending before Sunday, but I should be submitting that one to the Kennedy Center competition. I also decided to just submit my "hospital" play in ten-minute form even though it will be better as a one-act. The one-act version won't be ready in time, so I'll submit it in one-act form next year. And last Sunday (when I was missing the strike), I also got some revisions done on my full-length for class last Monday. They went well, but I still need to find what exactly that play is about so that it feels like it's moving forward rather than just a handful of (hopefully) entertaining scenes. Today is Friday, and I have my first free weekend in a month. It's very nice knowing that I don't have to run out to the theater right after work and do the box office. But I do need to get my ten-minute plays together and submitted before Sunday. And I decided to do NaPlWriMo again even though I won't get to "win" because I don't have a new play to start. I also volunteered to be one of their bloggers on the website. Should be fun. I'm hoping the community there helps me keep going on my full-length play since I really need to develop it this month.