The other day I was reviewing some of the Google Alerts I subscribe to to stay on top of what is happening in the area of playwriting and I came across an alert about an experiment, playwright and Pulitzer Prize winner Suzan-Lori Parks started on November 13, 2002. Parks was going to write a play a day for a year. She began that very day, finishing one year (and 365 plays) later. I was intrigued. Heck, I’m inspired!
All I’m trying to do is complete one play by December 15, 2007, for my daughter’s school! That’s 65 days away as of this writing. To top things off, according to an interview Parks did back in May of 2003 on Oprah.com, she wrote her play Topdog/Underdog in only three days … Parks won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize in Drama for that play. And, she’s the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in playwriting. That’s impressive!
How’s my experiment coming? Glad you asked … I’ve started work on some of my characters, there are 7 as of right now, and I am working on the plot and a couple of scenes.
That’s all for now.
