In keeping with the deadline theme, I invited Kate to participate in a staged reading of my first screenplay. I still have to finish the next draft, but I think scheduling a reading will help immenseley in that. Now I know that it has to be done by a certain date. I haven't nailed down the date specifically yet, but that's because I need to find all the other actors and work around their schedules. I now have to ask around and see who'd be up for it.
Staged readings are fun because they take so little preparation.
Since the actors have scripts in-hand, there isn't much rehearsal time involved. I figure I'll find a time when Kate can maybe take a long weekend, rehearse on Friday night and Saturday afternoon, and then do the reading on a Saturday night. Since two journallers will be participating in a third journallers' event, it might be another good excuse to get a bunch of online people together. With all this deadline-making, I now have no excuse not to make a concerted effort to sit myself down in front of the computer and write . Of course, I didn't have any excuses before.