hello wiseguys and gals.

it's 3pm on a rainy, ugly [not that i mind] saturday, and with bill and ted's bogus journey playing as some background noise, i am finding it the magic hour to find some words...

i've been steadily working on my new play, The Dying Words of Edison Strange, for a little over than a month.  i know i've spoken sparsely on this project before, in that i originally conceived it as what would hopefully be my second film script.  i completed the treatment around the time when i moved back to wilmington, and put writing the script on hold until i felt i would be better positioned in my career to be able to make some use of it. it has remained a story that i think about constantly, which is probably why one magic night i dreamt of it as a stage play.  the story of the original treatment was intended not for the indie filmmaker, but for a major studio, with all kinds of special effects and the like, so to make a legitimate run at writing it as a play, i had to imagine some major adjustments.  it was a slow start, a lot of solo conversations out loud, but Edison Strange is now in a really exciting place.  i intend to grow with each new piece i develop as a writer, and so the challenge i gave to myself here was to write the play in merely two scenes, one for each act.  ayyayyay, indeed a challenge. placing this restriction is one of the greatest labors i could have given myself, as it's the exact opposite of how i naturally write.  [Population: 8 was fifty-five scenes in seventy-five pgs.]  i like montage, i like movement...  whelp, this format didn't help any in getting on the good foot, but another magic day, i figured it all out.  i've committed myself to writing one page per day.  normally, i just write when i dang feel like it, but i like this new way.  it's actually pretty noncommittal in an odd way, and some days i end up with two, three, four, or five pages.  act one of the play has been completed, and i'm about eight pgs. into act two.  

one thing about this project that hasn't changed is that i'm writing it for Hilarie.  wouldn't you love to see her on stage?  the character is called Betty Victory (though another friend of mine, and a muse for another role, calls her Betty Victorious, which i may like evermore).  she's a bit of a femme fatale, villainous in a way, and i'll mention too, it takes place in the 40s...  mull on that for a while...

a few days off were taken to tighten the story of our graphic novel project, in order to make it less of a screen story, and more book friendly.  Menton is finishing up work on his current project, and we're in great anticipation for him to begin penning our world!!!

if you and i were friends on facebook, you may have noticed i disappeared, trading in that account for one of the twitter variety.  so come find me over there...

http://twitter.com/imongraycation

i'm leaking lines of dialogue from The Dying Words of Edison Strange, and other odd bits from the daily grind...   as i become more twitter tech savvy, who knows what'll come...  twitpicsssssss.

i've also got what i expect to be an amazing new website in the works...

http://graycation.net/

the coming soon page is up, and totally zany.  i'll hope you'll take a graycation, and join me!

absurdly yours/n.gray