Open Wardrobes

So once again I've neglected the blog for awhile, owing mostly to the fact that Kelly and I are learning just how much time it takes to raise an infant. (You wouldn't think something that little would take up so much time, would you?) But I have over the past month been working on another rough draft, one I started just before the little guy was born back in April. I've been wanting for awhile to write a play based on a series of folk tales. Actually, I've had an idea to do a series of such plays, each based on the folklore of a different continent. And, of course, me being me, I decided to start with the continent of Antarctica. Now, you're probably thinking that's an odd choice since Antarctica doesn't actually have any indigenous folk tales. And you would be right. Which simply meant that I had to make them up. Which is much harder than it sounds. So the process has gone in fits and starts, as while I came up with a general through line awhile back, I tended to get stuck each time I came to a new story-within-the-story. But it's been fun to try and create something like this from whole cloth. The characters are all animals from the Antarctic region, and so I started by doing some research on that which gave me a base of potential characters to draw from. It also makes for a relatively simple set. I mean, creating a barren land of snow and ice doesn't exactly scream high budget, does it? At any rate, while this first pass at the idea (finally finished not ten minutes ago) is a bit rambling, but the end I started to get an idea of the general threads and how things fit together towards the end. It will need a lot of work (much as The Princess and the Moon did after its first draft), but I think it has the potential to be a lot of fun.