Six days into April and I’m already a fifth of the way through the goal of 100 pages. I’m currently a little bit less than halfway through Act I, which, even though I’m only at 20 pages right now, is alright because there’s still a lot more story to go. The dialogue gets heavier later in the act, and Act II is actually longer overall. Right now, I having seven songs written and I’ll be starting on the eighth tomorrow. Yeah, there’s a lot of music in this show (I think I counted 39 or 40 songs in the outline), so I have a feeling that should fill up a 100 page script. Right now, songs are running me about 2-3 pages, but the further in I get with the story, that’s going to fluctuate. I’m thinking that there are songs later in Act I that could be maybe 4 or 5 pages long, so that could definitely improve the page count.
Anyway, it’s going really well so far. I’m loving this story and the characters are revealing so much about themselves through the writing process that I never knew. It’s been a great experience so far and it’s only going to get better from here!
