Wheeeeeee.
Bon soir, mes amis.
*hic*
Why yes, I have been enjoying fermented beverages. And I have not yet eaten dinner at after 9 pm. This is not an excuse for typos but rather an invitation to raise a glass with me and join me in silliness.
I just left a church Zoom in which I wore, in order, a Thor helmet, a scimitar balanced on my head, and my Princess Peach crown. I did warn them it was my fourth hour of Zooming today, and I did ask RV's permissinon to put the sword on my head before doing so. Still giggling over the fact that it was seven or eight minutes before anyone (RV) commented on it.
Whence, you ask, this jollity? This giddness? This unembarrassed silliness?
I freaking DID IT, y'all.
I submitted ALL THE FILES for ProChoir, church choir, AND the first (lengthy and establishing) scene for the musical I'm writing for the church theatre camp. Our meeting, at which a cold read of the first scene was to happen, was scheduled for 3pm. I finished the first scene script at 1pm. I knew it was a tight timeline. As of yesterday, I was missing two camper character analysis sheets and didn't get one until this morning. And let's be honest, Monday and Tuesday were spent finalizing ProChoir and church choir stuff. But I freaking integrated everything, including the this-morning character analysis sheet. It wasn't as brilliant as I can be, but it was NOT FREAKING BAD under the circumstances.
And the best part? After the cold read, I invited the kids to submit comments for revisions, and they ACTUALLY DID! One said, "I didn't feel like this important aspect of my character was part of what you wrote." I said YAAAAS I WILL REVISE! One said, "I kinda wanted this funny thing to be part of it, and it wasn't." YESSSS FUNNY PERSON, THAT WILL MAKE IT BETTER! One said, "I need you to delve deeper into how this character presents versus who he really is," and I said OMG I want you to go into that in your individual scene, but you can be damn sure I'm going to foreshadow the fuck out of it in the first scene. Then I got an email from the girl whose character storms out at one point, asking to storm out later because she feels shortchanged and I'm all YES THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT I NEED TO HEAR AND YOU SHALL BE THERE FOR AS MUCH OF THE SCENE AS POSSIBLE!
It's really like writing to prompts for a fest.. You just open the lines of communication and hope you get something back. I'm so happy these kids are invested in their characters enough to push me.
It would be a very different thing if I'd been working on this script for months and had things in EXACTLY the order they need to happen. But this thing has existed, even in embryonic form, for less than a month. A few days, if I'm being honest, because I had NO IDEA of the sample script I wrote would be usable at all (it was). The least I can do for these kids we've asked to do a lot of character development is to use what they're coming up with. And loads of it is stuff I NEVER would have imagined. At this point, they know their characters better than I do, even though they're working from my scripted skeletons. I don't have much hope that this thing will have "legs" after we post the final version, but it's going to be the best I can make it, and that ain't nothin', in the divine words of Jayne Cobb.
So yeah. Tomorrow I actually have to do work for work and send a copy of the revised script to my co-script person who I feel bad about leaving out of the first scene draft because of the shor timeline. And then send the script to the kids. I have until noon, because I said "tomorrow morning."
This means I should probably eat something. *sighs* Right. Back to the work of unwinding after a pretty intense day of making stuff.
Love to All!
Mun42
*hic*
Why yes, I have been enjoying fermented beverages. And I have not yet eaten dinner at after 9 pm. This is not an excuse for typos but rather an invitation to raise a glass with me and join me in silliness.
I just left a church Zoom in which I wore, in order, a Thor helmet, a scimitar balanced on my head, and my Princess Peach crown. I did warn them it was my fourth hour of Zooming today, and I did ask RV's permissinon to put the sword on my head before doing so. Still giggling over the fact that it was seven or eight minutes before anyone (RV) commented on it.
Whence, you ask, this jollity? This giddness? This unembarrassed silliness?
I freaking DID IT, y'all.
I submitted ALL THE FILES for ProChoir, church choir, AND the first (lengthy and establishing) scene for the musical I'm writing for the church theatre camp. Our meeting, at which a cold read of the first scene was to happen, was scheduled for 3pm. I finished the first scene script at 1pm. I knew it was a tight timeline. As of yesterday, I was missing two camper character analysis sheets and didn't get one until this morning. And let's be honest, Monday and Tuesday were spent finalizing ProChoir and church choir stuff. But I freaking integrated everything, including the this-morning character analysis sheet. It wasn't as brilliant as I can be, but it was NOT FREAKING BAD under the circumstances.
And the best part? After the cold read, I invited the kids to submit comments for revisions, and they ACTUALLY DID! One said, "I didn't feel like this important aspect of my character was part of what you wrote." I said YAAAAS I WILL REVISE! One said, "I kinda wanted this funny thing to be part of it, and it wasn't." YESSSS FUNNY PERSON, THAT WILL MAKE IT BETTER! One said, "I need you to delve deeper into how this character presents versus who he really is," and I said OMG I want you to go into that in your individual scene, but you can be damn sure I'm going to foreshadow the fuck out of it in the first scene. Then I got an email from the girl whose character storms out at one point, asking to storm out later because she feels shortchanged and I'm all YES THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT I NEED TO HEAR AND YOU SHALL BE THERE FOR AS MUCH OF THE SCENE AS POSSIBLE!
It's really like writing to prompts for a fest.. You just open the lines of communication and hope you get something back. I'm so happy these kids are invested in their characters enough to push me.
It would be a very different thing if I'd been working on this script for months and had things in EXACTLY the order they need to happen. But this thing has existed, even in embryonic form, for less than a month. A few days, if I'm being honest, because I had NO IDEA of the sample script I wrote would be usable at all (it was). The least I can do for these kids we've asked to do a lot of character development is to use what they're coming up with. And loads of it is stuff I NEVER would have imagined. At this point, they know their characters better than I do, even though they're working from my scripted skeletons. I don't have much hope that this thing will have "legs" after we post the final version, but it's going to be the best I can make it, and that ain't nothin', in the divine words of Jayne Cobb.
So yeah. Tomorrow I actually have to do work for work and send a copy of the revised script to my co-script person who I feel bad about leaving out of the first scene draft because of the shor timeline. And then send the script to the kids. I have until noon, because I said "tomorrow morning."
This means I should probably eat something. *sighs* Right. Back to the work of unwinding after a pretty intense day of making stuff.
Love to All!
Mun42