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May. 13th, 2019 01:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dolariToday was a pretty productive day. Got the lawn mowed, sure, but the real thing was finishing the First Draft of the musical. It's actually really special to me, because someone asked for it.
Ashley asked for people who had writing experience for a musical she was thinking up. I knew how to write screenplays, and I'd already written a few lyrics for her Disco project. So I piped up, and I wrote it. And I edited other people's work into the script. And then polished it up a bit. It took a bit longer than I through it would (I was fighting depression as well as a busy schedule), but I'm proud of it.
I've known how to script-write since the early 90s. But TV and movies are notoriously hard to get into, and after some personal and official discouragement, I walked away from that. Every decade or so I write a "pilot script" just to see if I still have the chops (The Closetspace UK script was my pilot for the 2010s, the Book of Zand was 2000s). But actually SEEING anything done with one of my scripts was just a pipe dream.
I hope that my script is good. While a good script can be ruined by bad production, a bad script can't be rescued by good production.
There's still some edits I'm sure will be made, but that's for a second draft a bit down the road. In the meantime, I'm going to sit back, relax a bit, then get back to my other hobbies (Zelda, comics, Genevieve, etc, etc.)
But mostly I'm going to relax. :)
Ashley asked for people who had writing experience for a musical she was thinking up. I knew how to write screenplays, and I'd already written a few lyrics for her Disco project. So I piped up, and I wrote it. And I edited other people's work into the script. And then polished it up a bit. It took a bit longer than I through it would (I was fighting depression as well as a busy schedule), but I'm proud of it.
I've known how to script-write since the early 90s. But TV and movies are notoriously hard to get into, and after some personal and official discouragement, I walked away from that. Every decade or so I write a "pilot script" just to see if I still have the chops (The Closetspace UK script was my pilot for the 2010s, the Book of Zand was 2000s). But actually SEEING anything done with one of my scripts was just a pipe dream.
I hope that my script is good. While a good script can be ruined by bad production, a bad script can't be rescued by good production.
There's still some edits I'm sure will be made, but that's for a second draft a bit down the road. In the meantime, I'm going to sit back, relax a bit, then get back to my other hobbies (Zelda, comics, Genevieve, etc, etc.)
But mostly I'm going to relax. :)
