Archive for September, 2007

The Collage Begins

I was having trouble with tone in my Shar scenes, they seemed to be so blah, so I decided it was collage time. I gathered papers in colors that had more of the vibe I was looking for, found three Christmas ornaments I could turn into the Three, and then threw in a [...]

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Collabaphobia

The idea of collaborating was first presented to me by Mystery Goddess back in January. She and Jenny had been chatting casually about how great the three of us would work together, and before I even knew about it, I was in a collaboration.
I was, to put it mildly, a little trepidatious. Not because of [...]

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Rewriting Shar

So I’m thinking about Shar, about who she is and what she wants and about how her four scenes in the first act go together as she pursues her goal. What goal is that? Damn good question. In the first scene she wants to find out about Kammani Gula. In the [...]

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First Draft of 10: Goin’ to the Temple

We’ve revised 10b Shar: Goin’ to the Temple scene (all I can hear are the Chiffons singing, “Goin’ to the temple and we’re . . . gonna get busted, busted . . .”) , but we thought you might like to see the revision process, too. So here’s the very rough draft I sent Lani [...]

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