Lots of phone calls today, mainly talking about the festival if I am honest. Much as I have enjoyed it, there is also a side of me that simply wants to move on. I made a concerted effort today and finished the Panto. It has taken far longer than I wanted, but it is my first full length piece of work, and I am quite pleased with it. Working the way I do, means that the editing process, which seems to be the bane of most writers lives, is done in the rehearsal room with live actors. I think this makes the whole process more interesting for me, and is also beginning to help me to write with a little more abandon. If it doesn't work, we can improvise our way around it, and see how we go from there. I know Mike Leigh tend to work in a way where all of the dialogue is improvised, and I am a long way away from wanting to do that, but all the same, the freedom is quite liberating. When I sent my forst plays off for publishing I found that there was an element of frustration with the editing process, as someone who hadn't actually worked with the text was making suggestions. In fact when you think about it, working on theatrical text is obviously very different from a novel. I wonder if the publishers realise this or not at times. Anyway, it is the third time I have written "The End" and been happy with it. A good day.
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