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Hi everyone, Lindsay Price here for the thirty days of development, this being day seven.
And I thought that you who have been reading along might like to see what seven days of
writing actually looks like.
Then we're going to go down here...
This is the notebook that I have been mostly working on when I'm at home. The bigger the
better. And as you can see, it's pages and pages of-- and the back pages, too-- of just
getting as much detail as I can. I don't care about formatting-- every time that there's
a slash line here, that's a new person talking. The lines here are just indicated that I've
actually transferred it into a computer because, as you can see, it's a little bit confusing.
Whenever I get stuck, instead of just musing about it, I just do myself a double slash
line and I start something new, and it's just really important just to keep on going. If
I start to get an outline, I just jot that down to how I think things are gonna go, and
then I continue on. If I've got a question, I write a question down, and if I've got something
that I'm not sure about, I just throw in a whole space and just keep on writing.
And it's a really good process for me. It makes things a lot easier that I don't have
to worry about formatting, that I don't have to worry about if things aren't going right,
I just keep on moving. If I've got a question-- Here it is, I'm writing them in the margins
here... my pen doesn't work, I'm trying to get the ink off... And everything just comes
out.
I've got a note that doesn't make sense in the dialogue I'm writing, I just write the
note down. And all of this-- when I finished here, I moved on to another book-- and all
of this translated into this. I spent the last two days typing all of my notes from
the week into-- see, I'm recycling paper-- into a computer document. It's translated
into about thirty pages. A lot of it's notes, not a lot of it's formatted-- See, if I know
a scenes working right, I format it properly-- And I think that I've solved some of the big
problems that I was having with the script. I'm going to talk about that tomorrow actually,
about how important it is to solve problems by writing through the problem. And the beginning
that I thought was the beginning of this play is actually no longer the beginning, and I
have to-- well, I have an idea that I'm going to come up with which is hysterical that what
I thought what the beginning is actually nothing else.
Okay, so. That's it, week one. And tomorrow I am going to put this play to the side, let
things gel a little bit, it's been a very intense week, it's been very exciting, and
I can't wait to see what happens next. And tomorrow I'm going to move onto something
else. I can't wait to see what's gonna happen. Buh-bye!