April

Well, let's just admit it.

I've been slack.

Worse than that, I've not only been slack, I've been lazy. Which is probably the same thing but in my mind, slack is not being able to keep up with all the tasks one sets themselves or the tasks that have been set by others. Lazy is just not even bothering to set oneself tasks. In all honesty, there has been more lazy than slack, although both have played their part.

The last couple of weeks, maybe longer, alright the whole of March and perhaps part of February, have been attacked by the lazy fly. He sits on my shoulder and his sheer weight keeps me from ever getting up off the couch.

On the other shoulder lies the procrastination fly that likes to be entertained with mindless internet sites, TV shows, and anything else that requires only a minimal attention span.

But with Easter just passed and 4 whole days off which is awesome and kudos to the bloke that made it all happen, it was time to get the Flyspray and get to work. Which I did, even though I woke up with some sort of deathly plague cold flu thing which still hasn't left me.

So, things are back on track. Somewhat. What I did manage to do in March inbetween checking Facebook 75,000 times a day was get my submissions up to date and it's only the first week of April and I'm already half way through the ones I need to get done for April. Hoorah for me.

I also completed a first draft of a new ten minute play called So Much Harm which is just the best title anyone has ever come up with, ever, and you all know it, so shut up.

Then, if that wasn't good enough, and it really really was, I dived headfirst into writing the first draft of my new full-length The Reading Group which is now up to Page 20. Awesome behaviour.

March also saw a trip back to the homeland (aka Brisbane) for my nephew's first birthday and it seems that the play a day reading cycle got way behind. But, as the good girl that I am, Easter saw me read 10 (yes, count them, 10!) plays and so we are all up to date on that one. I still have to play catchup with the screenplays/watching movies and short stories. But I'm getting there.

I even (almost) bounced out of bed this morning at 4.00am and wrote for nearly three hours.

I have a feeling that April is going to be a good month.

Busy

Have been slightly remiss in blogging lately ... Therefore not doing very well with Number 19 Blog every day but I have been working.

And, in exciting news, I can cross a big thing off the list:

11. Finish a full-length play.

Yeah for me. It's called New Light Shine and I have been working on this play for too long! But it's done. I really think it is done.

So now it's time to get stuck into Number 6 and get me some productions.

I'll do another post to sum up February and all the things I didn't think I did but did actually do ... Anyone follow that?

Cross, cross, tick

As of 5.00 am this morning, I get to cross another thing off my list.

82. Have a play produced in a country I haven’t had a play produced in

Done.

Just found out I am having a play produced in Toronto, Canada, which is the first time my words have hit the maple leaf country.

Excitement, excitement!

Time to break out the champagne and comply with

97. Celebrate all successes, no matter how small

and somehow also comply with

105. Limit my drinking

This is all very tough.