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Posted: Sun Feb 17th, 2008 08:17 pm |
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The people in my play are taking over my life. I went to lunch the other day with two friends and had to get back as I said to the friend's I don't know what they will be doing when I'm not around.
Then last night hubby took me out for dinner and a show and I said I'll take the play with me just incase I think of something. As it turned out the play came to the restaurant with us, but I didn't look at it, then we put it back in the car when we went to the show. There I am at the show and I'm thinking about my play, and god forgive me, didn't I kill off someone in my play, whilst I was sitting there listening to "Atlan" who are an Irish group.
My question is
Is this normal when your writing a play (or trying as in my case) is it supposed to take over your life?
Do I need a holiday?
or a Dr?
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Posted: Sun Feb 17th, 2008 08:23 pm |
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Imelda,
I actually do the same thing. When I am really into my work I am my work. Is it normal? It is for me. :>)
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Posted: Sun Feb 17th, 2008 08:25 pm |
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Thanks very much Master, I thought for a min. there I was going bonkers
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Posted: Sun Feb 17th, 2008 11:15 pm |
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Stephen King writes about this kind of stuff all the time...
makes millions at it. :)
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Posted: Mon Feb 18th, 2008 04:13 am |
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Rent the movie, "Adaptation" starring Nicolas Cage
Yes, it happens all the time.
And, maybe you are going bonkers.
If so...
...Welcome.
As a buddy of mine said a long time ago, "Hey, what else ya gotta do?"
Made perfect sense to me.
best,
in media resLast edited on Mon Feb 18th, 2008 04:15 am by in media res
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Posted: Mon Feb 18th, 2008 01:49 pm |
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Thank you Media,
have just ordered from Amazon.com with ONE CLICK
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Posted: Mon Feb 18th, 2008 01:50 pm |
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Timmy
Stephen King gives me the creeps. Doesn't he live around here somewhere?
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Posted: Mon Feb 18th, 2008 02:43 pm |
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| ...check your neighbors. If he has a beard...it's probably him. And worse, he's a Red Sox fan ("The Girl who Loved Tom Gordon")
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Posted: Mon Feb 18th, 2008 04:02 pm |
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OMG
Better lock the doors
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Posted: Tue Feb 19th, 2008 06:23 pm |
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One of my (paraphrased) favorite Stephen King quotes (and quite appropriate to the original thrust of this topic) was in the foreward to his "Bachman Books":
"I'm no more deviant than James Fenimore Cooper. It's just that I see monsters behind every tree while he saw Mohicans."
Let's hope your (and all our) characters keep popping up!
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Posted: Sat Feb 23rd, 2008 03:53 am |
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I ordered this from Amazonm.com and watched it tonight............I think I have to watch it again
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Posted: Sat Feb 23rd, 2008 03:54 am |
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in media res wrote: Rent the movie, "Adaptation" starring Nicolas Cage
Yes, it happens all the time.
And, maybe you are going bonkers.
If so...
...Welcome.
As a buddy of mine said a long time ago, "Hey, what else ya gotta do?"
Made perfect sense to me.
best,
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Posted: Sat Feb 23rd, 2008 04:50 am |
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Potabasil.
So glad you liked my comment.
I'll say it again: "It made perfect sense to me."
Jump in. The water's fine!
Again...Welcome!
best,
in media resLast edited on Sat Feb 23rd, 2008 04:52 am by in media res
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Posted: Mon Jul 14th, 2008 06:14 am |
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Timmy...you mentioned The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon. One of my favorite books. I grew up in the woods and I was lost several times on top of ridges at about the same age as the girl in the book.
I have a question sort of along these lines. Scripts start riding around in my car too, and I consider that normal. However, do you ever feel like you don't exist, and you are made up of just characters? Is that normal? I think sometimes, I may just be an undiagnosed multiple personality running around with no Ego, no Author, in charge. Great playwrights seem to be just the opposite of me. They create strong protagonists based upon their own strong selves. But I feel so weak.
How do you recover your passion?
If my characters do not passionately care about something, why should my audience care about them? I am having trouble recovering passion.
Blah.
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Posted: Wed Oct 8th, 2008 01:46 am |
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Consider yourself God smiled on.
My last full-length came on like that. The most fun I've had at this strange business. I would wake at night and have to jump up and make notes of changes and adds. Even after I thought it was near over-done, I kept going back in and making changes and adds simply because it was so much fun. Those characters had become my best friends and I did not want to leave them.
I've been hoping and looking since for another of those.
Yours sounds like that. Would you let someone else read it?
Bless you, and good luck!
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