Freedom Summer, Scene Three
Posted in Entropy on October 10th, 2008Sixty-four pages. Over 14,000 words. Six scenes to go. Here is the third scene.
Freedom Summer, Scene Two
Posted in Freedom Summer on October 8th, 2008Here we are again. I’ve written thirty-two pages and thirteen scenes in Freedom Summer since I posted that first scene. Less than three days remain to complete it! Here’s the second scene.
Freedom Summer, Scene One
Posted in Freedom Summer on October 5th, 2008Hey kids. I’m writing a historical adapation for my Playwriting class. It’s based on the experiences of Casey Hayden, a Civil Rights activist and early feminist. I have to finish a rough draft by Friday – here’s the first scene.
Notes from Weeping Ridge, 9/20/08
Posted in Entropy on September 22nd, 2008There are curtains of bright, green corrugated ooze piled up above the surface of the pool. Rising from the center is the exposed tap root of an old live oak; there’s ooze hanging from it, too. Ten feet above there is a stream falling through the bottom of the tree.
The limestone has eroded away to make a tiny cave, like a sunken shrine.
You can hear it from about a half mile away, and beneath the oak there’s a continuous patter of gently falling water.
The base of the limestone is deep green and luminous, giving way to dry white shadows in the cave ceiling. The ooze creeping up the root glows and flashes as little orbs of water accumulate and drop into the forest pond. Some ferns and creepers have begun the climb up the back of the cave.
Almost twenty feet above the surface of the pool the body of the tree juts out of the forest like the keel of a ship, and the creek winds slowly away into the woods.
I hiked ten miles with the one I love today, saw a deer, two copperheads, and an unreasonable number of spiders. Soon we’re having campfire chili. All in all things are looking good.