Monologs....

My pal and I spent two days at the PATA auditions.  We heard some very interesting monologs (or monologues if you prefer more letters).  But some of them were just awful.  I've often considered writing monologs as a way to get a thought out of my head, quickly.  I might just do that.  'Not having any luck getting full-length plays published.....maybe a book of monologs?  The only trouble is......my work won't contain all the gratuitous F-bombs and SH** expletives that seem to be rampant in today's theater.  

Dangola.....what a predicament.  I know!  I'll make up my own naughty words!

I finished reading a book

Well, I finished reading THE CHRISTMAS TRAIN.  It was cute, but I found the ending to be a little unbelievable.  Could I write something like this?  No.  It's a book.  I don't write books.  I write plays.

Was it everything I was told it would be?  Not really.  Again, it was cute.

So I've spent two days reading a "cute" book.

Now to find something meaty.......something that will be the catalyst to me sitting down at my Mac and actually writing.....

Dorinda has given me a bunch of books.  I bet one of those is meaty.  Naughty most likely......

It's raining and I need to write...

I have all these great ideas for plays.  Then I remember the advice I was given once - read, read, read.  So, I went to Goodwill and Salvation Army, perusing their used book sections.  Now, keep in mind I already have shelves of unread books.  Books from book-swapping parties, books that have been loaned to me, books I've bought at Costco because the price was just SO good.

I digress.

So, if you read, read, read - many different types of books, then it will stimulate the creative brain cells that are waiting to dive into a new play.

I started a book by David Baldacci, an author my mother-in-law recommended.  It's called THE CHRISTMAS TRAIN.  Yes, I know, Christmas has passed.  I'm preparing for Christmas 2009.  It's a good read.  But then, I'm also reading MARLEY AND ME.  Trying to not get the two confused.  

But whenever I read, I fall asleep.  MAKE TEA.  Tea with caffeine.  

SIGH......I'll just watch a dvd.  But a dvd about a writer.  Yes, that'll count!

WILDE - an odd little movie.  Not sure I liked it.

SIGH, now I'm worrying about all the tenses I'm switching between just writing this blog!  I need to mute that darn little editor who lives in my head.

Now can you see why I get nothing done?