31 Plays in 31 Days, #10 - “Come to Grovel”

The high-conflict, high-emotion, climactic moments of stories are always easiest for me to conceive of. Those moments, after all, are the reason I want to tell those particular stories. But when I bang them out when I’m not totally sure of the whole story, I tend to spoil them to no particular end. I fear that’s what I’ve done here, with an important moment in Dream Machine episode 6. On top of that, I think Bernie sees this scene a little differently than I do, so what I’ve done here is only of limited use until I totally understand what he was hoping to contribute.

But whatever. The whole point of this challenge is to draft. Get things on paper already. Because I do deeply stand by the idea that you do better to get out the bad version and fix it later, than to wait to put it down until you have it perfect in your head. Because let’s be honest— that never really happens.

( Day #10 – Come to Grovel )