{"id":1412,"date":"2003-03-06T04:05:00","date_gmt":"2003-03-06T09:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/creator\/2003\/03\/06\/1412\/"},"modified":"2021-04-14T12:40:23","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T20:40:23","slug":"1412","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2003\/03\/06\/1412\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

I kind of forgot to mention this, but I’m in Virginia. SETC<\/a> again, and the 24-Hour Playfest<\/a> again, and I’ve just finished the third draft of my play, which is pretty close to final. I’m an hour early, which may mean that (end-of-the-world joke of your choice).<\/p>\n

I’ve got enough caffeine in me to power a small country for a week, so I need to be doing something or I’ll be fidgeting and bothering the senior playwright who’s going over my piece right now: thus the entry. I’m as nervous as I was last year, because there’s no safety net. Doing comedy is hard, but writing tragedy is harder, and I think I wrote a tragedy. Or at least something that hurts.<\/p>\n

Tony<\/a> called me out last year for only writing comedy; he said he thought I had it in me to write deeper, darker stuff. I don’t believe my comedies have any less depth just because their tone is different, but the challenge irked me anyway. They do that. So this year I wrote something with a bite to it. It’s the play I couldn’t write fall term, and if you were around you know what that means, and if you read the play you might figure it out.<\/p>\n

Or you might not. I have to edit now, I think. I don’t want the ending to feel tagged on, especially because it wasn’t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I kind of forgot to mention this, but I’m in Virginia. SETC again, and the 24-Hour Playfest again, and I’ve just finished the third draft of my play, which is pretty close to final. I’m an hour early, which may mean that (end-of-the-world joke of your choice). I’ve got enough caffeine in me to power […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,92,114,111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drama","category-girls","category-plays","category-setc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3609,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions\/3609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}