She reads people like books. Tomes bound in vellumed skin. Transcribed in blood, and sweat, and tears; Masterworks of accruing years. Some were surprisingly, painfully short; Superficial or collapsing mid sentence. Others were extensive fulminations, Verbosity obese with it’s own orations. Fantasies and fictions delighted her, Dreamt up by fever’d brows; Terpsichorean tales,…
Author: Sarah Mann
Okay human, most of the time.
Ode to a Decaying Toothe
Forsooth, I have a wisdom tooth, That like the state of Denmark be. So will I unto my chums Who practice modern dentistry. Who wilt, with needle and with pliers, Extract the wisdom from my head. And thus a dribbling idiot, I will retire to my bed.
NYC Midnight: Screenwriting Nervous Breakdown
I mentioned in my last blog that I was, in my current incarnation as exhausted armchair adrenalin junkie, doing another writing competition. One with another tight(-ish) deadline. And a brief. For someone who hates writing to brief, I seem to only pick competitions where I have to write to a sodding brief. I British. I likez whinging. You…
#29PlaysLater Rides Again
Hey pop-pickers! As I am a sucker for a ridiculous pyramid scheme-like writing competitions, I’ve entered NYC Midnight’s Screen Writing Challenge. While less intense on a day-to-day level than #29PlaysLater, the stakes are definitely stacked due to the humungous number of entrants. For round 1, you get sent a brief for a screen play and 12 days…
29 Plays Later – Challenge 25 – Twenty-Nine Play Slater
CAST Director Al Pacino – Cat Slater 1 Audrey Hepburn – Cat Slater 2 Bette Davis – Cat Slater 3 Charles Chaplin – Cat Slater 4 Daniel Day-Lewis – Cat Slater 5 Elizabeth Taylor – Cat Slater 6 Greer Garson – Cat Slater 7 Ian McKellen – Cat Slater 8 Ingrid Bergman – Cat…
29 Plays Later – Challenge 23 – War on Words!
Ok. So, this was actually really fun to do. Taking a made up language, and trying to make sense of it is utterly, joyfully silly. Thanks #29PlaysLater A small, fat man walks on stage and stands behind a lectern. He wears a huge hat, lots of gold braiding and epiletttes, and is smoking a huge…
29 Plays Later – Challenge 22 – Something about Sarah Brightman…
Well, today got trippy (again). I think I may be tired. I also realise it’s been a really long time since I posted a play. I will work back and find them all at some point. If nothing else, just to prove I dids the deeds. Albeit without my usual level of planning or panache…
29 Plays Later – Challenge 8 – Margarine at the Heartbreak Hotel
Fade In: Vegas. A hotel basement. Florrie stands pointing a gun at Vince. Vince, dressed as Elvis, holds a small Chihuahua, Charlie. Vince holds a gun to Charlie’s head. Florrie Let go of Charlie! The truth is, I’ve despised you since I discovered the truth about you, Frank and the margarine! Vince Look dollface, you’ve…
29 Plays Later – Challenge 6 – OATES: THE COMPILATION MUSICAL
CHALLENGE: Operas… musicals… revues… love ’em or hate ’em – music has been a part of theatre since the very beginning, so why not embrace it? Come on – let’s write something with songs! Maybe the entire play is contained in one long song, maybe the characters are singing for a reason, or maybe… just maybe……
29 PLAYS LATER – DAY 5 – PLAY 5 – MOOSES MURDER
The Brief: Challenge 5 – Due 06/02 at 10am GMT OK, so we’ve been focusing too much and worrying about writing good stuff how about writing some shite? Like, proper total crap. (not literally! You know who you are!) Not as easy as it sounds. Just have no filters. Let yourselves go. Now, typos are…
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