English Journal Entry #2

English Journal Entry #2
Wednesday, June 09, 2004
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I’d jotted some notes down on the bus about ideas and whatever else, in terms of what should happen – obviously, if it’s going to be recursive, we still need to have stuff happen to make it interesting – imagine a mirror reflecting into infinity without an image to reflect.

So we got a basic start to it all slammed up, because that is invaluable, just for the sake of getting the ball rolling.  I think Tori was writing everything down, and we developed a plot up to the first soliloquy — and we also established a list of character attributes (and aspects of jealousy associated with these).  We didn’t decide who these attributes would be assigned to, that happens tomorrow.

Essentially, the play starts with us sitting down and saying “So, what are we going to do for this play?” – giving an impression that absolutely NO preparation has gone into it.  We start bouncing ideas around, and then hit the one that we’re going with — at that point, Tori launches into soliloquy. She doesn’t think it’ll work, and is jealous of the apparent confidence of other characters.  We’ve only written down rough notes… I’ve borrowed Tori’s book, and typed + emailed copies of what we have so far to everyone.