Difficult week. Struggled with being down through most of it. Still not back up properly yet, but OK.

Finally got the car back. One of the keys still isn’t working, even though it went back today and they said they couldn’t find anything wrong with it - again. Oh well. As long as one key still works.

I also handed in a ’series of scenes’ for the Guildford Play Writing Festival whilst I was in Guildford with the car this afternoon.

All last week I was doing really well play writing, but last weekend I started going down again, and even though I was still excited about the play I’ve really struggled to do things this week.

One thing I wasn’t expecting; the little One Act of about 25-40 mins that I thought I was writing keeps telling me it wants to be a full length play. I’d already had problems with the title (still undecided - now gone through half a dozen and settled on one of the earlier ones as a working title, though probably won’t use the idiom I chose since Agatha Christie already has - not that you can copyright a title, you understand, but it could cause problems if someone decided to do a play version of her novel since it has already been made into a film - I digress, sorry.) and two characters wrote themselves out (down to six now) though one did sneak back in - just his voice is heard off stage for one short, but important line.

Anyway, I’ve written in first draft about 70 minutes worth of what I fully expect to be a 55 minute first act and a 45 minute second act full length play. Essentially I have written the beginning and end of both acts and am now filling in the middles. Not done it like that before - not that I’ve written a full length play before. (I’m not counting my Pantomime - different genre.)

Sadly, this last week my concentration has only lasted for about two fifteen minute episodes per day. Not good, considering I can easily write without a break for up three hours before I even look at the time. (And managed to spend a full 12 hours not including breaks writing on one particular day the previous week.) Consequently I didn’t get anywhere near as much done as I wanted to this week - I spent most of it in bed. I was getting seriously concerned that I wouldn’t be submitting anything to the Festival, and wasn’t sure I would be able to right up until about midday today. Anyway, I ended up submitting the first 35 mins of Act I.

I’m looking forward to finishing and editing the full play. Will probably end up getting out my Writers and Artists Year Book and finding a theatre to submit it too, if that is I’ve got a decent title by then!

Oh well, we wait and see…

Shortly off to the (wild; wet; windy - take your pick) Witterings for the weekend (I promised Richard we’d go for some long walks as the weather isn’t shaping up to much) and I’ll be back home Sunday for my Monthly Writers’ Circle Breakfast Meeting.

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