January Checkpoint

The first act ended up being shorter than I’d originally thought it would be, but all of the planned scenes were written. It’s only like 14 pages when it should be about 40. That makes me think more needs to be added, but I’m not sure what. It feels kind of like a one-act, but it has too many scene changes and if it’s worth keeping at all, it needs more conflict. If it’s going to be turned into a one-act it needs a lot more conflict a lot faster. I know that character development is lacking, so I need to go back and think of what I want each character to be like in-depth again. And I was thinking maybe starting it when they meet, but I don’t know if that’s too much. I feel like it’s moving at a good pace as it is now, maybe a bit fast; but that’s just how I read it in my head. I think I’m going to ask people to read through it out loud for me soon so I can get a feel for what it’s really like. Since I edit as I write and I read over what I write regularly throughout writing, this copy has my revisions, but I need to get other peoples ideas. With everyone being so busy with either their own checkpoint or Misentity stuff, I’ve felt bad about asking. I’ve also spent a lot of in-class time, when I have actually been in school, doing Misentity things, like submissions and slam stuff, and working on poems, so editing has fallen to the wayside. This play is starting to feel like a nuisance to me and I’d like to work on other things for a while, but I know I can’t take a month off of it to work on other things or I won’t finish by the end of the year. I’m frustrated. I think I want to drop this project in general and start over with poetry. I think it’d be more useful for me.

The first act