More pictures!
Suddenly remembered other people had cameras too.
Manjima, for instance.
Where are they,
It might be just what some of us need to put the lead back in our pencils (cheee!)
Come on then, children. Look sharp!
Manjima, for instance.
Where are they,
It might be just what some of us need to put the lead back in our pencils (cheee!)
Come on then, children. Look sharp!
posted by Anonymous at 6:36 pm
4 Comments:
Guilty as accused, madam. I do have pictures of the workshop which I've been forgetting to upload. Blame it on the in-laws. (It's wonderful how you can blame everything on them...) Setting a reminder on my phone to do it today.
Still struggling with Scene Two, but at least some of it is coming together now! 16th is D-day--that's when the (very bitter) p-i-ls leave! So I should be able to increase my productivity.
How is Rustom coming along? Have you been able to go beyond Scene 12?
Did you do a scene structure before beginning to write? I'm trying to do one, but quite frankly struggling with it. Don't know if it actually helps. Anyone?
yes yes. i love scene structuring.
what helps is if you rough sketch vaguely what the scenes are going to be like. just like a skeleton outline, or like an argument plan before an essay. it helps you see the larger sweep of the play and where you are located currently in the overall arc. like a map.
what does NOT help, is when you plan the scenes, sense the sweep and then say ... well this is a dumb play and end up not writing it. or when something unexpected happens and you say - well that's not part of the plan, i'm not going there.
i guess it's like trying to write down all the moves of a chess match that's happening in your head. but all the pieces keep changing shapes after 2 or 3 moves, rooks become pawns, bishops turn into queens, a knight becomes a king. and then suddenly the board starts re-arranging itself. and so on...
what do you think will work for you best?
How rough a sketch do you mean? I end up spending fifteen minutes on each scene summary and it somehow seems too structured. Not that I have a problem with a change of plan. I'm quite happy to go with the unexpected, but find things totally changing course as I do dialogue. Thinking of doing a flow chart instead. Maybe it's just the comp effect. Will take carl's advice and try the pen and paper version. Hope that turns out better.
Hrm. It's deeply subjective I think.
Summaries I think are slightly dicey, (imho), because for me, they end up giving a feeling that the possibilites of a scene are closed. It's sort of pinned and flat and dead. I guess you feel the same in feeling uncomfortable with overstructuring. (Which I am heniously guilty of! Sorry Anu!)
My rough sketch is something like...
So Z and Jo are in a video game parlour. And Z is going to do anything to impress Jo. And Jo's going to get the maximum ego stroking out of him. And at some point Z is going to do something dumb. And there must be a mention of the harmful effects of tight jeans somewhere. Let's see what happens...
And in the process of writing the dialogue a whole bunch of other stuff happens that throws the plan out the window. So you plan the next scene accordingly.
How much you set up the inital dynamic is up to you I guess. Sometimes you go into the scene knowing almost nothing of what is going to eventually happen. Sometimes you know a lot. If a flowchart is useful, then go for it... If it stalls you, dump it. It really depends on what works for you.
Pen and paper is my total favourite to brain dump! Whereas MS Word is useful for rewriting and for assembly.
A play suddenly changing course is half the fun and half the trauma of writing!
And at the end of the day the best advice I've been given that has been simply unbeatable in its simplicity is ... fuck it all and just write.
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