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breakinglight11October Review Challenge, #22 - "What piece would you like to go back and reedit?"
In my entry on Old Shames, I mentioned it’s often tough for me to go back and look at pieces that I’ve matured past as a writer. While many of my old projects have okay bones and good ideas to them, I feel very avoidant at the thought of going back to fix these things and attempt to bring them up to my current standard. It probably would be possible to rescue many of the pieces I mentioned, but I don’t know if I could bring myself to do it.
The major exception to this is the first Mrs. Hawking play. Not that I think it’s that bad or anything. But I did initially draft it almost a decade ago, and my ability has evolved enormously since then. I suppose I have picked at it in various forms, given the need to adapt it to a screenplay pilot and into the substance of a proof of concept, but I have never gone back and officially rewritten the play itself. I think that’s worth it, as it is part of the canon of my current most important project.
And Bernie and I have been turning over the idea of getting to a point where we make really high quality video recordings of the plays, specifically staged for being recorded, without worrying performing for a live audience. It’s tricky to make a good recording of a play in normal performance conditions, so it’d be really good for having non-live versions of the shows to present for people who can’t make the live ones. But if we were to do that, I’d want to polish up the first script. Maybe even the second one, too, just to make sure they were up to the standard set by the current work. Which, if I may say so myself, is pretty high. :-)
In my entry on Old Shames, I mentioned it’s often tough for me to go back and look at pieces that I’ve matured past as a writer. While many of my old projects have okay bones and good ideas to them, I feel very avoidant at the thought of going back to fix these things and attempt to bring them up to my current standard. It probably would be possible to rescue many of the pieces I mentioned, but I don’t know if I could bring myself to do it.
The major exception to this is the first Mrs. Hawking play. Not that I think it’s that bad or anything. But I did initially draft it almost a decade ago, and my ability has evolved enormously since then. I suppose I have picked at it in various forms, given the need to adapt it to a screenplay pilot and into the substance of a proof of concept, but I have never gone back and officially rewritten the play itself. I think that’s worth it, as it is part of the canon of my current most important project.
And Bernie and I have been turning over the idea of getting to a point where we make really high quality video recordings of the plays, specifically staged for being recorded, without worrying performing for a live audience. It’s tricky to make a good recording of a play in normal performance conditions, so it’d be really good for having non-live versions of the shows to present for people who can’t make the live ones. But if we were to do that, I’d want to polish up the first script. Maybe even the second one, too, just to make sure they were up to the standard set by the current work. Which, if I may say so myself, is pretty high. :-)
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