Reflections on 31 Plays in 31 Days 2018
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breakinglight11I have completed this challenge for the seventh year in a row! It pleased me enormously to see my chart fill up with one more row, which is the reason I insist on doing this year after year, even when it’s not necessarily the best use of my time. This time, however, it was all about completing a specific piece.
31P31D 2018 was about the practical generation of writing that I needed immediately for a project in a way it never really has before. I needed to finish Mrs. Frost, and given that I was a month behind were I was with the previous installment last year, it was very much the priority for any writing I was doing. I think this was the largest percentage of scenes posted from any one current project in progress, even more than Gilded Cages. I actually ended up posting more than I wanted to initially, for fear of spoiling important moments, but I didn’t have time to write other things to post instead. I probably ended up doing less work than I typically do, as I spent most of my time generating scenes I would actually use in the piece rather than placeholders for posting. I tend to end up with a lot of extra material this way, meaning I get even more for the “one scene per day” buck, but I just didn’t have the time when there was so much of the import piece still undone.
The statistics:
Projects written for:
1. Mrs. Frost – 18
2. Hawking – 10
3. Gilded Cages – 1
4. Jeeves Takes Charge – 1
5. Ripper – 1
Characters written:
1. Victoria Hawking – 11
2. Nathaniel Hawking – 10
3. Mary Stone – 9
4. Reginald Hawking – 7
5. Elizabeth Frost – 6
6. Clara Hawking – 6
7. Malaika Shah – 4
8. Arthur Swann – 4
9. Roland Davies – 3
10. Ambrose Hawking – 2
11. Justin Hawking – 2
12. Terrence Enfield – 1
13. Charles Dearborn – 1
14. Sarah Hemsworth – 1
15. Reginald Jeeves – 1
16. Bertie Wooster – 1
Because of this, it ended up being another near all-Hawking month, with only thirty as opposed to last year’s thirty-one. The only non-Hawking piece was a scene from pilot idea I had for a reboot of Jeeves and Wooster. I intended to do more of those for this month’s challenge, but finishing Mrs. Frost took precedence. I also didn’t work very much ahead on anything, though given I don’t know much about anything past part six, there’s not a lot of ahead I’m prepared to work on! It does mean I’ve drafted five installments of this series, and even though it needs a lot of editing before it’s finished, I’m really proud of that accomplishment.
31P31D 2018 was about the practical generation of writing that I needed immediately for a project in a way it never really has before. I needed to finish Mrs. Frost, and given that I was a month behind were I was with the previous installment last year, it was very much the priority for any writing I was doing. I think this was the largest percentage of scenes posted from any one current project in progress, even more than Gilded Cages. I actually ended up posting more than I wanted to initially, for fear of spoiling important moments, but I didn’t have time to write other things to post instead. I probably ended up doing less work than I typically do, as I spent most of my time generating scenes I would actually use in the piece rather than placeholders for posting. I tend to end up with a lot of extra material this way, meaning I get even more for the “one scene per day” buck, but I just didn’t have the time when there was so much of the import piece still undone.
The statistics:
Projects written for:
1. Mrs. Frost – 18
2. Hawking – 10
3. Gilded Cages – 1
4. Jeeves Takes Charge – 1
5. Ripper – 1
Characters written:
1. Victoria Hawking – 11
2. Nathaniel Hawking – 10
3. Mary Stone – 9
4. Reginald Hawking – 7
5. Elizabeth Frost – 6
6. Clara Hawking – 6
7. Malaika Shah – 4
8. Arthur Swann – 4
9. Roland Davies – 3
10. Ambrose Hawking – 2
11. Justin Hawking – 2
12. Terrence Enfield – 1
13. Charles Dearborn – 1
14. Sarah Hemsworth – 1
15. Reginald Jeeves – 1
16. Bertie Wooster – 1
Because of this, it ended up being another near all-Hawking month, with only thirty as opposed to last year’s thirty-one. The only non-Hawking piece was a scene from pilot idea I had for a reboot of Jeeves and Wooster. I intended to do more of those for this month’s challenge, but finishing Mrs. Frost took precedence. I also didn’t work very much ahead on anything, though given I don’t know much about anything past part six, there’s not a lot of ahead I’m prepared to work on! It does mean I’ve drafted five installments of this series, and even though it needs a lot of editing before it’s finished, I’m really proud of that accomplishment.
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