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Still working on my 10 minute comedy play. Hearing lots about pods lately and how it is being iinundated with comedians. Also had the fringe festival here in boulder which has lots of monologes (monolinguists?). I am interested in possbile putting together a monologue and seeing where it goes. I reading swimming to cambodia right now and have it on my netflix list so I will see if it seems to be a good thing for me or just a diversion when I should focus on the plays.

revived

2 vacations later I feel revived and ready to write. I submitted my technophobe play on the sponsor's site. They have previously stated that once I signed up I would get mucho reminders and I didn't receive any, which makes me suspect somehow their email isn't getting by my span filter. That will be my excuse if I don't hear from them about this submission.

I'm working on a another 10 minute play that is fun to do. Its suppose to be comedy and I like the way its coming together so far.

hey

My first postive response to GoTo Country. A NY theatre liked my sample and asked for the entire manuscript. Makes me feel a little better since I thought my sample was failry representative of the whole thing.

I'm getting close to finishing with my 10 pager about technophobes that is due 7/31/11. Later.

this that

I received a response to my book proposal entitled Fake Quotes, Falsely Attributed. This was about the 4th or 5th from an editor that really liked the idea, but for whatever reason wouldn't publish. He suggested a blog akin to Shit My Father Said, which my wife had suggested. I don't know.

I'm going on vacation tomorrow. I'm a little burned out, but I still want to write. It's more the body shutting down on me.

more GoTo

I just finished extending my play GoTo Country to 60 pages which seems about the minimum for what can be considered a full length play. I will probably work on editing it some more and wait at least a couple of weeks to make the play 75 pages. I'm burnt out on it now and am considering taking chucks of my unpublishable book about military school and translating to a play.

play format

I'm working on expanding my longish play. I was at 43 pages including title page and character/scene page. I think I have to a have at least 60 pages to submit to a lot of places that want a full length play. Apparently a page is supposed to equal a minute. There is a lot of conflicting format info out there. Some of it talk about indenting the left side so that it can be bound, others the speaker should be listed in the middle of the page or the side, etc... . I have looked at many plays and their is mucho variation. I'm also having trouble have the page number start at 1 where the dialogue starts. When I figured that out I had to split the doc into 2 sections and now I can't figure out how to eliminate the pagination on the first couple of pages.

more stuff

I recently finished a monologue called Best Son about a father-son con men team. There are a couple of sites that collect monologues and then people can peruse the site and pay a fee to use it.

I was thinking that my next project should be full length play, but I have opted to write to the specs of reqeusted submissions. I would like to get a track record of some readings and performances and the theory is that if there is a greater likelihood of an acceptance if you are giving somebody exactly what they want.