One Last Insight from Last Night
Dec. 1st, 2002 08:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldThis comes from the time just before I left--I'm tempted to say 1 o'clock, since I wasn't sure about the time.
I was rather drunk, when I was talking to Lennie and Matt. These two gentlemen, for those of you who are not Charlottetonians (Charlottetowners?), recently co-wrote and starred in a one-act play, the title of which eludes me, but involving a lot of exciting and entertaining philosophical-cum-sexual posturing over poetry. I approached them as soon as I saw them, since I've always wanted to talk to them to see if they had any tips to playwriting, for I too would like to write plays. (Hey, I did decently enough in creative writing seminars, so why not?)
I talked to Matt, first. He was cool, and also drunk, accepting my compliments nicely--"When it rains it fucking pours" is a good line. I asked him for a hint, and he said that for him, writing dialogue was always a major problem, but that he coped by writing the role for himself, drawing from his own personal experience. At this time, Andrew and Adam showed up, as did Lennie, and they decided who was drunk and who wasn't. Me, I was sloshed. (At the time, Andrew and Adam were merely "happy.")
I talked to Lennie next, equally cool and drunk. He suggested that the constraint of time was important, that when he and Matt agreed to put on their play they hadn't written it yet and that the pressure of time helped him actually get down to writing. Which is common in all writing that I know of, actually.
I was rather drunk, when I was talking to Lennie and Matt. These two gentlemen, for those of you who are not Charlottetonians (Charlottetowners?), recently co-wrote and starred in a one-act play, the title of which eludes me, but involving a lot of exciting and entertaining philosophical-cum-sexual posturing over poetry. I approached them as soon as I saw them, since I've always wanted to talk to them to see if they had any tips to playwriting, for I too would like to write plays. (Hey, I did decently enough in creative writing seminars, so why not?)
I talked to Matt, first. He was cool, and also drunk, accepting my compliments nicely--"When it rains it fucking pours" is a good line. I asked him for a hint, and he said that for him, writing dialogue was always a major problem, but that he coped by writing the role for himself, drawing from his own personal experience. At this time, Andrew and Adam showed up, as did Lennie, and they decided who was drunk and who wasn't. Me, I was sloshed. (At the time, Andrew and Adam were merely "happy.")
I talked to Lennie next, equally cool and drunk. He suggested that the constraint of time was important, that when he and Matt agreed to put on their play they hadn't written it yet and that the pressure of time helped him actually get down to writing. Which is common in all writing that I know of, actually.
