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I'm currently working on a full-length play called "The Princess and the Moon," an original fairytale. The story centers around Lizzy, a princess who wants to be the first girl to become a knight. But once knighted she finds out she is actually the ninety-sixth girl to become a knight and in a fit of anger fires her herald... who then decides to take over her story as the new villain.


The play started as an exercise, almost 2 years ago. Once I had the original idea I decided to try turning off the internal editor and just take the story wherever it would go. After about 2 months I had a very, VERY rough draft that was nearly 100 pages long. (Which then sat on the hard drive for about a year and a half.)


It was a very freeing exercise to just write and not worry about if it was actually good. (Some was, some wasn't.) And most of the second half had to be scrapped, but I came out of that initial draft with a solid core to the piece and a lot of fun, quirky characters. I've spent most of the summer reworking the piece, especially the second act, and now it's about 90% of the way there!