wordwhacker

On Thursday night I finally sent in the first completed draft of the horror audio play (code name: "Broke Open"). It is definitely a work in progress, but I feel like I've taken it as far as I can given my current level of experience and skill in writing audio plays (read: next to none.) Some plot and structural elements are nagging at me and I'm hoping that I will get some feedback that will confirm my suspicions and help me figure out how to resolve them.

I am... "happy" doesn't quite cover it, because I am NEVER happy about anything that I know isn't pretty much perfect. But because this way lies madness, I am calling myself "satisfied given the context" and dusting my hands of it for a bit. And in terms of actually having researched / worked through / actually written this thing, I am definitely happy with myself. At least a dozen times in the past two weeks I decided that I was a talentless hack who isn't kidding anyone, just give up now you loser, who are you trying to fool anyway? But I kept working at it, and overcame some of the hurdles, and wound up with something that at LEAST has some promise. And I guess we'll see where it goes from there.

Now I'm going to do a bit of prep work for the weekly story, which will be a bit more substantial than the past couple of weeks', even though I have enjoyed the relative break from outlining, brainstorming, etc. It's still going to be something of a speed-write and thus a kind of larval story (dude, 90% of the stuff on this journal is in that state right now), but I think it's going to be fun to write. Especially after two weeks of straight-up dialogue.

[EDIT:] The story is written - this week's half of it, anyway. Will write the second half for next week, and I'll post both parts then. It's Portal fanfiction! Fun!