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Open Mic Night

July 22nd, 2010

I decided to try something new yesterday to help me move past where I am in this piece. I read act II of my current play into a microphone attached to my computer and recorded the session. I waited a while and played it back once yesterday.

Then I played it back again a short while ago. And though after the first listening I couldn’t hear it, this time around I heard a moment — a moment for a character to assert herself, a moment for her to direct the way things would go from that point on, a moment for her to be strong and take her stand.

It amounted to about three lines of dialogue, but it’s a moment that makes all the moments following it that much stronger, and that much clearer.

Though the audience won’t have the advantage of stopping and starting the play as they are watching and listening to it, I’m glad I can use it to my advantage at this stage of writing.

–Sue

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