Today, I hit 86 pages total written this month (I’m still including the pages I lost in the crash. I mean, I did write them this month, they still count for Script Frenzy). Anyway, I was looking at my outline just now, I’ve still got about a quarter of Act II left to go. In fourteen pages. I’m starting to think this script may run about 105 pages, which still isn’t bad for a musical libretto. Not nearly as bad as the 150 page scripts I tackled the past two years. Seriously, what was I thinking? 150 pages? That’s, like, a four and a half hour show. August: Osage County is shorter than that.
Anyway, back to this year. Things are going really well, and I’m so excited about writing these last few scenes. Some really fun stuff happens here at the end which I won’t post the details of, but it’s going to be such a thrill to write it. The whole show kind of turns on its head in the last pages of the script, and I can’t wait to tackle the change. All in all, it’s been such a wonderful month and I’m really looking forward to continuing on with Variations!
