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Mood: tired Fact of the day: event of the week Make or Break Monday
I'm now sitting in the computer room, waiting for 7pm to come....so that I can go to the dining hall opposite my hall to collect my dinner. I'm hungry, tired and very irritated - because I spent the whole time during the opera trying to understand my computer science notes. In semi-darkness, please remember. And I'm getting nowhere.
Sigh.
I have a long night ahead of me. How will I be able to finish both studying for the exams and write a research paper? Omigod, I usually take a whole day for each, and now I only have one night to do both? sigh....surprisingly I'm not particularly stressed though. Maybe because I'm still a little charged up by this whole theatre experience and suddenly studies do not seem to be as important as before.
The play that I was writing yesterday didn't seem as good today as it did yesterday. After some thoughts, there are some loopholes and though I figured out how to work around them now, I realise it's going to take a long time before I actually produce something vaguely "perform-able". Heh. I don't particularly like the fact that it's set in a love story. Though the theme is really not necessarily romantically related, I guess the love story factor is going to steal some attention away from what I actually want to say. Hmm. I'm still trying to decide if I should take another approach.
But anyway, I don't have time to continue writing the script now, in view of my heavy workload tonight. But I guess I can continue after tomorrow. I do have some skeleton that I can work from - the vague character analyses, the main story outline, the main scenary needed and basically 3 pages worth of actual script with dialogue and all. It took me 2 nights to come up with this, but it's barely even 10% finished. It still needs more work to actually be even "sort of" completed, before it can be polished up and all. I don't know. Maybe I should set a target deadline for myself, just to make sure I don't lose my momentum.
It's of course not the first time I'm writing a play, but this is the first play I'm writing on my own, where I can have complete control of how the plot should flow. I also have all the time in the world, so I won't have to worry about meeting all those ridiculously tight deadlines that my teacher used to set. I'm also the imaginery director for this play, planning the positioning of the actors, or the timing of the dialogues. Since I started out in theatre doing backstage stuff, naturally I also assume the roles of the sound director, the scenery director, as well as the lighting director. Man, great sense of self-importance. Heh. But I have the right to be proud. This is my play.
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