Accomplishment chart, 7/29 – 8/4

Accomplishment chart, 7/29 – 8/4

Writing
- wrote 1 blog entry for Mrshawking.com
- drafted 6 scenes of Hood pilot
- finished 2 scenes of Hood pilot
- posted 4 scenes for 31 Plays in 31 Days
- finished Hood pilot, version 1
- 4 Livejournal entries
- 7 daily Hipster Feminist tweets

Website
- posted 1 blog entry to Mrshawking.com

Teaching
- got 1 interview for adjunct position
- finished first draft of Business Writing syllabus

Physical
- 2 fighter abs routine
- 2 two-mile runs
- 5 hours helping a friend move

Media
- listened to episode 67 of Tom and Lorenzo’s Pop Style Opinionfest

Cooking
- made 1 chocolate pudding smoothie
- made roast garlic pork tenderloin with steamed broccoli

31 Plays in 31 Days, #5 - "Carrying"

This is an idea for the Adonis sequels, probably occuring in the third part. One thing I want to establish for the world building is that pregnancy is very different in this matriarchal culture. I think it would make sense for pregnancy to have much more of a space made for it, much more accomdation, but also that it's treated like a much more normal state of being-- if all of your important people are likely to be pregnant at some point or another, it's going to be considered something to just take in stride in the course of normal activities. I also think public life would build in the idea that people would sometimes have to withdraw for a little while for it, in such a way that wouldn't derail careers. I also think terminating pregnancy would be much more normalized, as the dominant gender would find it necessary to take that control for themselves.

This scene is very rough, awkward, and abrupt. Probably needs to be split in half for cinematic structural reasons. But it explores the ideas, and does a little to show the relationship between Diana and her ten-year-younger protege, Callisto.

( Day #5 - Carrying )

New post on Mrshawking.com -- "Challenges of staging Base Instruments"

New blog entry on Mrshawking.com!

"Challenges of staging Base Instruments

This fall we’re going to be going into rehearsals for Base Instruments, the third installment of the Hawking series. I’m extremely excited. Not only is Base Instruments the first true mystery of the series, in my opinion, each installment is better than the last, and so this most recent one is the best story yet. I can’t wait to bring that our audiences at Arisia 2017 next winter. But in moving on to this show, we’re definitely inviting new challenges in the staging process!



Read the rest of the entry on Mrshawking.com!