August 18, 2021
I've been away from The Tribe for a week as I prepared to submit A Family Game (AFG) to Big Shout Out 3. Now I can focus on other things this week or what is left of this week. I pushed myself to get AFG to where I wanted to be. And now I am back.
But having spent all of my focus burrowing into AFG - the story, the people, and other such I feel so removed from The Tribe that it seems foreign - the plot points. I am happy too that I finished the prose treatment before taking the break. I consulted the treatment and am now aware of where I am in the story.
Obviously, I need to reread what I have written. It would be ideal for me to read it from the beginning. But oddly I am scared that reading it will depress me. Will I reread it in its entirety? Do I have a choice?
Rereading a piece from the top is something I do often. But since I usually write poetry, it's not usually that big of a deal even with blog posts. You read it few hundred words and then get back on track. But from reading AFG in order to edit it I have a fear about reading the 4,800 words. I am afraid that it will depress me into not finishing.
Nonetheless I will finish the play in the next eight days. That'd be one scene per day. I am not going to push it. I am just going to write