A Playwright's Diary: Waiting to Workshop Any writer is going to deal with the unbearable excruciation that is "waiting for other people" at some point or another. Fortunately, writers being largely solitary folk, this doesn't happen too much. But when it does...hoo boy. I submitted two plays to my home theatre for consideration for workshop. It takes a lot of courage to do that in the first place. Of course, I've gone through the process before, with the same theatre. Great people, extremely supportive. Even so. These are my brain children I'm offering up, and doing so makes all the little needlers of insecurity rise up. What they don't like my plays? What if they think they're crap? What if they print out 5,000 copies, purely for the pleasure of holding a bonfire, no, a Bacchanal of exultation, as they stomp on the ashes that were once my dreams? I mean, you know. It could happen. However likely or unlikely any of the above scenarios, the fact remains that I submitted these plays at the beginning of March. It is currently mid-June. Now, I'm a patient person. I'm understanding. Things happen. I know for a fact that a few things have gone down at the theatre recently that have taken precedence. So. But I don't know everything. 3 1/2 months seems just a bit of a long time to wait to hear. I hate to bug; God, I hate to bug. There's a reason why I'm not in sales. So it took some doing for me to enquire recently; upon which I was told it would be handed out to the board members and that's where we're at. Okay, great; and again, but. Could I, just maybe, perhaps, get a clue as to when I might possibly hear something next? Is this too much to ask? I just, I'm itching to do some workshopping again, it was so much fun last time. That and with a newish baby, I haven't gotten to be involved in theatre stuff for a while, so this is a way I can keep up with that. It's easy to be patient, and so hard to keep being patient. Writing helps. I've been able to not think about this by concentrating on new projects. But... ...I've already written two more plays. How many more am I going to write in the meantime? It could reach the point of ridiculousness. So those are the thoughts running through my head. When things do finally start going, I'll post, and that with this will make a nice little playwright's diary on the process. I hope. Hopefully that will be soon. Ish.
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