Irreplaceably Precious First Draft
Penguin June 23rd, 2008
Nothing quite like a vacation to get the juices going. I hammered out a few early drafts of Irreplaceably Precious while I was in Mexico. The ending still needs a little bit of work, but the main bits are there.
I started with a rough short story that I wrote on the plane. After I typed it up, I started building the scenes and writing out the dialogue. It was hard to keep myself from editing, since my dialogue was so bad.
Then I reread it to see if things made sense and added a few more scenes in and started moving bits and pieces around. If I had my index cards, it would’ve been much easier to do this.
I showed it to my actors, and they seem to like it. It clocks in at a brisk 22 pages. The original play, which it’s loosely based off, ran 70 pages. It’s pretty much completely different from the original. But the same (if that makes any sense).
Can’t wait to shoot it.
-Penguin
Related posts
