{"id":275,"date":"2008-12-30T17:15:32","date_gmt":"2008-12-30T05:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/?p=275"},"modified":"2008-12-30T17:15:32","modified_gmt":"2008-12-30T05:15:32","slug":"pots-on-the-boil-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/pots-on-the-boil-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Pots on the Boil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Courier;\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"scrippet\">\n<p class=\"sceneheader\">INT. LOUNGE, HOME &#8211; EVENING<\/p>\n<p class=\"action\">I lie in the arms of THE GODDESS.<\/p>\n<p class=\"character\">ME<\/p>\n<p class=\"dialogue\">I haven&#8217;t done ANYTHING this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"character\">THE GODDESS<\/p>\n<p class=\"dialogue\">Oh rubbish.<\/p>\n<p class=\"character\">ME<\/p>\n<p class=\"dialogue\">I&#8217;m serious.<\/p>\n<p class=\"character\">THE GODDESS<\/p>\n<p class=\"dialogue\">What were you busy doing at the beginning of the year then?<\/p>\n<p class=\"character\">ME<\/p>\n<p class=\"dialogue\">&#46;&#46;&#46; The short film.<\/p>\n<p class=\"character\">THE GODDESS<\/p>\n<p class=\"dialogue\">And what have you been doing with those playwrights, hm?  And that stuff for the guild?<\/p>\n<p class=\"action\">I open my mouth, then close it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"character\">THE GODDESS<\/p>\n<p class=\"dialogue\">And then there&#8217;s your radio play.  Well?<\/p>\n<p class=\"character\">ME<\/p>\n<p class=\"dialogue\">You can&#8217;t just let me feel sorry for myself, can you?<\/p>\n<p class=\"action\">She kisses my forehead &#45;&#45;<\/p>\n<p class=\"character\">THE GODDESS<\/p>\n<p class=\"dialogue\">No, I cannot.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nWhat <i>have<\/i> I achieved this year then?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I wrote a <a href=\"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/26\/tick-tock\/\">ten-minute play in twelve hours<\/a>, and watched it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.titirangitheatre.co.nz\/images\/albums\/24hours\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">premiere (and close)<\/a> twelve hours after that;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>I&#8217;m facilitating a disparate group of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/group.php?gid=38546256309\" target=\"_blank\">Pasifika playwrights<\/a> (four months straight and counting);<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>I&#8217;m an (increasingly) active Board member of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzwg.org.nz\" target=\"_blank\">New Zealand Writers Guild<\/a>;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>I&#8217;ve had a short radio play accepted for broadcast on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radionz.co.nz\" target=\"_blank\">National Radio<\/a>;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>and I did some script consulting on a couple of projects.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m tempted to skew my stats a la the police leadership in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Wire_(TV_series)\" target=\"_blank\">The Wire<\/a> but, for me, a project isn&#8217;t finished unless it&#8217;s <b>finished<\/b>, knowwha&#8217;Imean?<\/p>\n<p>So:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/toonai.dfmamea.com\/\">To&#8217;ona&#8217;i<\/a> crawls towards completion;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>I&#8217;m co-writing a play, to premiere in 2012;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>I have my <i>own<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/27\/openings\/\">play<\/a> to push &#8211; and thanks to the joys of <strike>misery likes company<\/strike> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bebo.com\/pasifikawriters\" target=\"_blank\">peer pressure<\/a>, the first act is due by mid-January 2009;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>the <a href=\"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/07\/patience-schmatience\/\">diversionary feature spec<\/a> has copious thematic and strucutural notes&#8230;  but an actual story has yet to emerge;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>enamoured with the short radio play&#8217;s &#8216;success&#8217;, I&#8217;m writing an hour-long radio play: I&#8217;ve got the opening and closing acts while the middle is currently all <a href=\"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/19\/roughing-it\/\">rough notes<\/a> &#8211; forty pages to go!<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>and the long awaited spec feature of 2007 has been <a href=\"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/15\/the-working-first-draft\/\">roughed out<\/a> and is approaching a proper first draft.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n[Takes a few steps back and squints]<\/p>\n<p>Okay.  I suppose it&#8217;s just about perspective.<\/p>\n<div class=\"scrippet\">\n<p class=\"sceneheader\">INT. LOUNGE, HOME &#8211; LATER<\/p>\n<p class=\"character\">ME<\/p>\n<p class=\"dialogue\">Maybe this is my dash.  Maybe this is IT.  Maybe &#8211;<\/p>\n<p class=\"character\">THE GODDESS<\/p>\n<p class=\"dialogue\">Maybe you needed a year to consolidate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"character\">ME<\/p>\n<p class=\"dialogue\">I thought last year was a consolidating year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"character\">THE GODDESS<\/p>\n<p class=\"dialogue\">It&#8217;s a bit hard to consolidate when you&#8217;re juggling paying work, don&#8217;t you think?<\/p>\n<p class=\"action\">I mumble something.<\/p>\n<p class=\"character\">THE GODDESS<\/p>\n<p class=\"dialogue\">Pardon?<\/p>\n<p class=\"character\">ME<\/p>\n<p class=\"dialogue\">&#46;&#46;&#46; I suppose.<\/p>\n<p class=\"action\">She nods, knowing, as always, that She&#8217;s right.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INT. LOUNGE, HOME &#8211; EVENING I lie in the arms of THE GODDESS. ME I haven&#8217;t done ANYTHING this year. THE GODDESS Oh rubbish. ME I&#8217;m serious. THE GODDESS What were you busy doing at the beginning of the year then? ME &#46;&#46;&#46; The short film. 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