Intermission
a creative coffee break from writing the play

Just when I thought I’d completed the re-write, new moments revealed themselves. I realized I had let the play get away from Itself. There was a scene I wrote, early on, which changed an important underlying element of the play.” Everyone loved” this scene. And so it stayed. I tried to trust it. Yet a voice inside tugged at me: “It’s too on the nose. It’s over the top. It’s cheap. It’s too easy. It changes everything.” On and on. I ignored it, temporarily taken with the wisdom of the group over the voice that’s beyond the ego and from someplace else.

Finally hearing something, as the actors read it, knowing that scene had to go. And so it goes. Ripping out that scene and everything related to it. Bringing this particular element back to where it began. Grateful.

So, thanks for asking. The re-write is still in joyfully in progress. For the moment.