Today Katherine and I worked on our scripts. We hasn't given it much thought when we started and the piece that we are making has started to evolve. I don't like the idea that we had at the beginning of writing scripts and then cutting them up and giving them to the actors, it seems cool for a moment but recently I have really disliked having to cut up scripts that I wrote to be spoken normally. I think Kat agrees with me and we have decided to put on the scenes more traditionally. We have three that we want to put on, and we've asked Andrew and Sabrina to help us, already giving them the scenes to memorize. As much as Katherine may disagree with what I am about to write, this is a teaching opportunity for me, and a learning experience for her. I taught her the method that I start writing when I don't know what to write, which is to start off a scene by setting up the characters and have them each be performing an action, and then once dialog starts, you start to discover within yourself, where you want your script to go. What we did is that we set up three scenes, each no more than two pages long, and each starting with the same introductory stage directions, two people sitting on a couch, one is nervous about something, bitting her nails, and the other calmly reading a book, and from there we created three totally different scenes. And from that we also decided to have Sabrina and Andrew act each character of the scenes, the same, so the plays have more of a reason to be presented together. I'm exciting to write theatre again, I missed it from last year, and I'm exciting working with someone because it makes the project feel more legitimate, and gives me more enthusiasm to continue to work on it, because if I dropped out of this now, I would be giving up on Katherine. I also plan to refilm my movie, and I don't know why it has taken so long, but I plan to get that done this week as well. For STAC night I want to have my movie done and this piece with Katherine prepared to present, and I think that it is all very doable, the scenes Kat and I have written aren't too hard to pull off, and after reading them today with Andrew and Sabrina, I am positive that all of this can be done, mostly because just them reading the scenes was already satisfactory acting and there would only be a couple of things that we'd have to rehearse. There is this one scene where the two are talking and then the lights go out and one of the characters gets raptured and I had an idea of leaving clothes behind and that could be a little work, but it is all doable. Katherine doesn't think in the same sense of doablitiy as I do, which I think might be a good thing, in my mind, if I can't actually pull it off in real life, then I don't bother working on it. Katherine was writing this movie script about fire breathing farm animals, and it sounded like a fun idea, but in my mind I am just thinking of ways to actually make it work, like buying stuffed animals and cutting out little pieces of red paper to look like fire. I have never written a movie or play script that I couldn't pull off, because my mind can't focus without that limitation. If you tell me to make a film about a rocket ship going to Mars, I would have it be a film about a rocket ship school going to Mars, and you never see outside a window.
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