All Eyes on Me

Well, I stopped being able to write Lacuna scenes in the order they would probably occur. The challenging bit is that the scenes where they’re playing the video game, I really need to think through the imagery and how to manifest the ideas that I want to convey, but it’s very tough to figure that stuff out in time to get a coherent daily scene of it together. I hopefully will get some together before the end of the month, but I’m not there yet.

So this scene is not the next in the sequence, but a later part of the interview between Amy and Twist, trying to subtly build on the themes of the story and the specific nature of the horror.

( Day #16 - Collaborator )

Wow, this one turned out long. A good bit longer than most of the scenes I post for the 31P31D challenge. But my rule for myself is I need to present a complete unit of dramatic action, even if it’s a small or short one, in every scene I post, and this took a lot of stuff to come to a stopping point.

This is I believe the third scene of my new horror piece Lacuna, after #4 - New Game and #5 - Curious. I feel like this scene needs to lay a lot of groundwork that would be important for building up the suspense, so I was compelled to really flesh it out. I know the details will need a lot of refining, as most of them are made up as I went and might not actually serve to built to what I want. But I’m hoping to make the audience ask a lot of questions and start their minds wondering without giving too much away of what’s to come.

( Day #7 - Streaming )

This is the opening scene of an idea for a new piece, that came out of a conversation about doing something that could be shot fairly easily, rather than our typical elaborate period piece works. It’s a horror piece called Lacuna, about two friends who get into a strange new video game that brings out parts of them they’re not ready to confront. I’m interested in horror but haven’t written much of it, so that would be an interesting direction to attempt. And I’ve never written anything about technology particularly, which makes for a real stretch for me.

I haven’t thought this story out very deeply— right now I’m just kind of making up shit as I go along —but it’s the perfect sort of project for 31P31D, since I just need to draft and am specifically choosing not to figure it out in a structured outline beforehand. We’ll see where it goes.

( Day #4 - New Game )