Without ANY songs or setups for scenes, Act 1 is 49 pages long. At this point, the songs for Act 1 run about 30 minutes, start to finish, with no edits and no talking over intros... SWEET! Act 1 is JUST over an hour! If one or two songs get widdled down a bit, and another one or two get done a beat or two faster than before, and ALL of them start while the actors are talking (which they always do) that's an EASY ten minutes shaved off right there.
Now, should I finish Act 2 before I ask Susan for sheet music or ask her now as I think she is on a short hiatus?
I should probably wait. I think I'll just keep going. I can finish and give it to her and THEN ask for sheet music - which, she might not even have.
I said when I started this blog, that I really liked this process and was daunted by it. I haven't said that in a while - bit it is still true. I really do love this process. Despite all the hangups, all the weird things... I love it. A lot.
There is still work to be done, I'm only half-done with half of what I need to do. And there is more to do on the side. But the writing is there. Everyone who has read it, likes it. I'm excited about that. They liked it before I edited it. Before I made necessary changes and cleaned it up considerably.
They liked it.
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