It takes so long to cut a Shakespeare script. And, yes, when I'm directing a Shakespeare play with teens in it and the audience is going to be their parents and younger siblings, I'm cutting Shakespeare...okay, that's my excuse but really I cut Shakespeare because I can't stand the play to keep going on and on and on. So back to cutting.
At first I was cutting some words here and a small section there. I added my changes to my document on the computer and saw that I still had 10 PAGES worth of script to cut! Alas! Alack! This was a tragedy!
Second time through, I was kind of on a rampage. I couldn't take forever to cut the thing. Funny part here? Cut; there were already funny parts in the script. Poetical & flowery language about love? Forget it; gotta get to the root, the essence of the thing. Finally I got done and it worked out okay.
And thus I see why some of my own novels remain un-edited: I either don't want to cut down to the essence...or that's all I have left. *sigh* Back to work.
At first I was cutting some words here and a small section there. I added my changes to my document on the computer and saw that I still had 10 PAGES worth of script to cut! Alas! Alack! This was a tragedy!
Second time through, I was kind of on a rampage. I couldn't take forever to cut the thing. Funny part here? Cut; there were already funny parts in the script. Poetical & flowery language about love? Forget it; gotta get to the root, the essence of the thing. Finally I got done and it worked out okay.
And thus I see why some of my own novels remain un-edited: I either don't want to cut down to the essence...or that's all I have left. *sigh* Back to work.
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