In this thread, people give me support in my attempt to stay up all night and write a play.

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We do this yearly festival called "The Blitz." Eight of us started at about 9 pm CST. We have to finish a one-act play by 6 a.m. tomorrow; the directors will cast the play tomorrow morning and begin rehearsals, and they are all performed at 8 p.m. that night.

I have about two pages so far. I drew "Darkness on the Edge of Town" and "Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy" for my two titles, but let someone else use the latter, as I didn't need it.

So anyone who cares to may stay up all night with me (or in other places maybe it's breakfast now, or lunchtime or something) as I write this play.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Saturday, 28 May 2005 02:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll be up late!

― a collectivist romantic fling! (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 28 May 2005 02:19 (twenty-one years ago)

yay!

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Saturday, 28 May 2005 02:36 (twenty-one years ago)

give us updates! i'll be here listening to disco and watching telemundo with the sound off.

― a collectivist romantic fling! (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 28 May 2005 02:38 (twenty-one years ago)

i am playing literati ALL NIGHT LONG and probably just checking ILX otherwise so i'll be gunnin' for ya. and yes updates!

― joseph (joseph), Saturday, 28 May 2005 02:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Is this like a play version of NaNoWriMo? :)

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 28 May 2005 02:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Use my favorite Peanuts line ever:

"Gradually, a shot rang out."

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 28 May 2005 02:58 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, trace, it is! kinda.

okay, so far, the plot is going to be: a rich guy and his wife meeting her scruffy/sexy former boyfriend; halfway through, they are visited by the vengeful spirit of dramatic tension, who runs off with the rich guy.

i have eaten 10,000 potato chips and some asparagus. also, the Great Lakes Brewing Co. makes a very fine beer called "Edmund Fitzgerald".

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Saturday, 28 May 2005 02:58 (twenty-one years ago)

jody why you turn off sound for telemundo? we just got it because we have dish network now, ME GUSTO MUCHO

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Saturday, 28 May 2005 02:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I would go to the play if I was going to be in town tomorrow!

I also must try this "Edmund Fitzgerald".

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 28 May 2005 03:02 (twenty-one years ago)

jordan i was gonna tell you but i knew you'd be busy on saturday night

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Saturday, 28 May 2005 03:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Aww, these are fun! I did one of these a few years ago. The end result was utter crap. Utter, utter crap. But it was fun!

― Remy (x Jeremy), Saturday, 28 May 2005 03:03 (twenty-one years ago)

also, the Great Lakes Brewing Co. makes a very fine beer called "Edmund Fitzgerald".

because if you drink enough of it you'll get wrecked?

― a collectivist romantic fling! (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 28 May 2005 03:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Where are the plays being put on?

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 28 May 2005 03:05 (twenty-one years ago)

jody why you turn off sound for telemundo?

i no speaka the spanish. but i was watching one of telemundo's very fine soap operas earlier.

― a collectivist romantic fling! (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 28 May 2005 03:05 (twenty-one years ago)

jordan: the bartell. it's a mercury theater production.

jody: yeah, either that or they use water from the great lake they call gitcheegumy

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Saturday, 28 May 2005 03:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah, Mercury. My girlfriend was once a Mercury player.

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 28 May 2005 03:08 (twenty-one years ago)

(in a "risque" production)

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 28 May 2005 03:10 (twenty-one years ago)

AWESOME

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Saturday, 28 May 2005 03:10 (twenty-one years ago)

by the way, it is great to write a play while listening to The Electric Spanking of War Babies

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Saturday, 28 May 2005 03:24 (twenty-one years ago)

np: "the wreck of the edmund fitzgerald"

― a collectivist romantic fling! (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 28 May 2005 03:31 (twenty-one years ago)

tell me not to get distracted because one of the other playwrights is disturbingly hot

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Saturday, 28 May 2005 03:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I am hotter. Oh, sorry. You weren't supposed to be distracted.

― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 28 May 2005 03:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Orbit you're not helping! :)

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Saturday, 28 May 2005 03:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Focus!
I'm up, although it's not that late here. I took the skin off my shin and one of my palms this evening & it's still too painful to try to sleep. Fucking skateboard, dumped me on the sidewalk when I was trying to show off to a friend.

― lyra (lyra), Saturday, 28 May 2005 03:58 (twenty-one years ago)

oh the shame

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Saturday, 28 May 2005 03:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Haikunym you have captivated me with your verse.
I tremblingly await you.

― Orbit (Orbit), Saturday, 28 May 2005 04:00 (twenty-one years ago)

curse you and your tremblings, woman!

i got my hair cut really short today, almost a buzz-cut

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Saturday, 28 May 2005 04:05 (twenty-one years ago)

sunset this evening: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wck/16031832/
Taken at the park this evening... that's my best friend with my dog & his dog. Thankfully there's no photographic evidence of my crash, which was about 20 minutes before I took that photo. I love sunsets in Seattle, even ordinary ones are brilliant orange and turn the bay a nice purpley color.

― lyra (lyra), Saturday, 28 May 2005 04:14 (twenty-one years ago)

You must add this line: DAMN YOU TESTICLES!

Note: it's pronounced 'test-ic-leez', not testicles.

― Dante, Der Führer (Sean3), Saturday, 28 May 2005 04:18 (twenty-one years ago)

you need a comma between YOU and TESTICLES, btw.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 28 May 2005 04:20 (twenty-one years ago)

This sounds like fun! You are inspiring me to stay up and do something constructive tonight.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 28 May 2005 04:33 (twenty-one years ago)

words of inspiration for the struggling playwright, courtesy of homer j. simpson:

"just throw lots of swear words in! that's what david mamet does!"

― joseph (joseph), Saturday, 28 May 2005 04:47 (twenty-one years ago)

argh, hit the wall, last hour just slipped away in a haze of caffeine, lust, fatigue, self-doubt, and lust

POLEAXED

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Saturday, 28 May 2005 04:50 (twenty-one years ago)

drink more coffee.

― lyra (lyra), Saturday, 28 May 2005 04:52 (twenty-one years ago)

okay, I'm on it

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Saturday, 28 May 2005 04:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Lust?

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 28 May 2005 04:55 (twenty-one years ago)

no, coffee

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Saturday, 28 May 2005 04:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't drink too much though, or your fingers will get too jittery to type...

― lyra (lyra), Saturday, 28 May 2005 04:58 (twenty-one years ago)

this is awesome!! good luck, it sounds like a wicked fun thing to do.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 28 May 2005 05:06 (twenty-one years ago)

my brother just called me; he was at tonight's performance of the plays written the night before. he was quoting a song from the musical written by my friend Rob: "He had to die / He was drinking Bud Lite"

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Saturday, 28 May 2005 05:19 (twenty-one years ago)

to be fair, that line sounds better if you know it is sung by Satan pretending to be Jesus

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Saturday, 28 May 2005 05:26 (twenty-one years ago)

2:49 a.m., finally figured out what was wrong with the damned thing, oh yeah

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Saturday, 28 May 2005 06:48 (twenty-one years ago)

3:56 a.m., done

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Saturday, 28 May 2005 07:54 (twenty-one years ago)

congratulations!

― lyra (lyra), Saturday, 28 May 2005 13:17 (twenty-one years ago)

thanks, I'll post it up on a blog later on

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Saturday, 28 May 2005 14:58 (twenty-one years ago)

http://haibun.blogspot.com

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Saturday, 28 May 2005 15:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Great work! Too bad the vase wasn't broken. That was a bit disappointing.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 28 May 2005 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I like it!

― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 28 May 2005 15:46 (twenty-one years ago)

thanks. i don't know how well it will go over tonight, though!

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Saturday, 28 May 2005 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha, that's great. Break some actor's legs!

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 28 May 2005 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Bravo!

― beanz (beanz), Saturday, 28 May 2005 18:29 (twenty-one years ago)

At least you're not staying up all night trying to make gold from iron and sulphur.

"Yes, I have heard of this August Strindberg..."

― Ian Riese-Moraine's Plateau Rouge! (Eastern Mantra), Sunday, 29 May 2005 01:31 (twenty-one years ago)

By the way I am home (and drunk) after it was performed -- it kicked ass, total ass, 100% azss, and I am very happy. I love eveyrone.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Sunday, 29 May 2005 05:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Way to go Haikunym! I really like the play, too. (Tell me something: I bet the stage directions didn't quite go as you laid them out?)

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 29 May 2005 07:20 (twenty-one years ago)

actually, they pretty much did. the director took things WAY over the top; she made the first part into a soap opera instead of a kitchen-sink-style drama the way I figured she would, and it turned out to be the right choice. the actress playing Barbara kept cracking up onstage -- I kept looking for Harvey Korman to walk on. But everyone was perfect; Chuck looked like Travis Tritt!

Other play subjects: cannibalism (natch), skater-punk ennui, centrist politics, sexual fondue, a contest for Miss Chatham Cow Pie Toss 2005 (Selma: "I only entered this contest because the judge said it would count for community service"), a chicken-based rebellion, and a musical about fat male strippers on a woman's cruise.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Sunday, 29 May 2005 12:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Sexual fondue!

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 29 May 2005 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

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