A Writer's Notebook, Day One-Thousand-One-Hundred-And-Twenty-Four

 I finished my script and was able to get it submitted.  I spent much of the day working on it, and I am proud of the resulting piece, though I have no doubts that, if it is selected, their will be a good deal of work to develop the piece.  That is the way it was the last time that I had a piece accepted by this theater, and I am certain that it will be the same way again.  I know the areas of the piece that I would want to focus on, as I think one of the characters is more developed, and would like to even that out, which, I believe, can be done in a way that will enhance the inherent drama of the situation.  If I had been more diligent and gotten to work sooner, I had intentions to flesh some of this out, but the ideas I was having felt rather silly, to be honest, and I felt it would be good to focus on what I knew was going to work, and getting the general frame of the piece set.  I think that their is a lot packed into the piece, and I tried to keep it short while still getting a good deal done.  In general, I do feel good about it and about the chances of it being selected.  For one thing, I don't know how many people are going to be eligible to submit pieces, as it requires having attended certain live events, and those I participated in didn't have too large of an audience to begin with, and I have to assume that not everyone is going to submit work, anyway.  The odds are always better when the numbers are smaller, and I have faith that the work I sent in is likely to stand out from the crowd in a positive way.

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