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    June 28, 2006 at 11:21 PM
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This thread is for posting up sections of rough script that you write.  Take the ideas from the Plot Development message thread, and see if any of the plot segments get you thinking - try and write out some beginning dialogue for that section of the play, and post it up here.

 

Of course, also read what other people post and make your own comments and suggestions...

 

 


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    June 30, 2006 at 04:18 PM
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I have read the outline. If someone gets me started with a scene (so I can understand the type of humor expected and the level of complexity) I'll start diving in!

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    July 01, 2006 at 08:12 PM
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well, obvioulsy i'll be playing orkster unless anyone else really wants that kind of role. I think we established this already.

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    July 01, 2006 at 08:16 PM
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i think that Ben, if you're reading the plot, then you should really want to be The Rhino. I think you'd be really good at that.
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    July 05, 2006 at 09:28 PM
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Here are those possible first two pages, for anyone that didn't make the meeting tonight...

 

 

TEN LITTLE ALUMNI

 

ACT I

 

SCENE ONE

 

(FLETCHER enters, carrying a clipboard, and looking around the cafeteria disapprovingly, which is the only way he looks at anything or anyone in the first place.  He is already talking when he enters.)

 

FLETCHER:   …and so I don’t mind telling you that I am not looking forward to this little exercise in nostalgia one bit.  (WAXEN enters, carrying a box of supplies.  Whenever she replies to FLETCHER, she looks out toward the audience, not at him).  That class, more than any other on record, was the most pathetic, clique-ridden, underachieving pod of miscreants this institution has ever seen.

 

WAXEN:        Oh, I don’t know… I don’t think they’re all that bad.

 

FLETCHER:   Not all that bad?  Take Rhinoski for example.  That musclebound freak was woshiped by the class for his prowess on the field, and they did whatever he said… including paying no attention to a single lecture throughout his four year tenure here.  Or perhaps you recall Miss Sherman?  Her predelection toward the dark beyond would have been endearing in an artist or a writer, but was just plain morbid for a young woman of no talent.

 

WAXEN:        Unique.  That’s the word I would use.

 

FLETCHER:   Unique… you know what else is unique?  The wonderous varieties of warts and fungus available to mankind.  That doesn’t mean I’d want to spend four years of my life with them.

 

WAXEN:        No, really… when you think about it, they’re kind of sexy.

 

FLETCHER:   Did you say… sexy?

 

WAXEN:        Yeah… shapely enough to get the blood flowing…

 

FLETCHER:   That is ENTIRELY inappropriate!

 

WAXEN:        Why don’t we both try one on?  See how it actually fits and feels?

 

FLETCHER:   Well, I NEVER!!!

 

WAXEN:        I have to go… big 20th reunion tonight!  I’ll call you later.  (WAXEN presses a button on her cell phone, takes a wireless earpiece out of her ear, and turns directly to FLETCHER).  Were you saying something Jebediah?

 

FLETCHER:   (pauses, flustered)  I… uh… be-deviled technology!  What was wrong with the telegraph?  Absolutely nothing, I daresay.  Certainly prevented a lot of sexual misunderstandings.

 

WAXEN:        (turning away from him, and speaking to herself)  Oh, dear… he’s raving again…

 

FLETCHER:   Frankly, I don’t know that I’d say you’re much better than any of the class of 2006 lot anyway… after all, you were barely old enough to be teaching them… what class were you again?

 

WAXEN:        Class of 2000.  The Millenium Generation!

 

FLETCHER:   Oh, yes.  Just a wee sapling.  I have always said that there should be a clear age requirement to teach the young folks.  As they say, with age comes wisdom.

 

WAXEN:        In that case, I have a question I’m pretty sure you’re qualified to answer.  What is the meaning of life?

 


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    July 07, 2006 at 06:06 PM
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Well, today, I've typed up everything that we wrote last night... I also feel a bit guilty about going out of town just when the rest of the script needs writing, so I wrote connecting scenes in the beginning to weave in the blanks of what we did, so that the first nineteen pages of the script (through I.f) are now all written.  I also set up the file in such a way that it's ready for the other pieces to just be inserted or typed in.

 

You can download the file by going here...

http://www.hipius.com/messages/sc1.htm

...and following the instructions.  I'm sorry I can't just post the whole thing right here on the board, but it says it's too long for a post... if you want to try to read it right in your web browser, try clicking here (I can't be sure it'll work, but it's worth a try).

 

Happy writing... can't wait to see what it looks like when I get back!

 

 


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