From the Outside Looking In
I’m very fortunate to have been invited to join a playwrights’ group a few months ago. For the past few months, I have been bringing in a few pages at a time from the piece I’m currently working on. I’ve been challenged at every page, and every turn. And I won’t lie, I was resistant at first, but I’ve continued faithfully working, and putting faith in the process and the story I’m telling.
After this last round, I really took a good look at the work — separating the history I have with the piece with what’s on the page and what’s coming across (and more importantly, what isn’t).
As I wrote this morning (after more than a week of figuring out exactly where I want to go from here), I felt free to look at this with new eyes, to gain the perspective I was unable to gain on my own.
From the outside looking in, I was able to see what I’ve been missing for so long.
–Sue
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