When folks ask how long it takes me to write a play, I get stumped for an answer. It took me 7 years to write Jonathan, I say. While writing Jonathan, I worked on numerous other scripts & poetry and had a FT job, and a family. So it’s not like I wrote 9-5, 5 days a week, 2-week vacation, for 7 years.
With my covid-19 routine, I now know it took me 24 hours to write the treatment for the one-act play “Lookin’ for Liza Jane.” I wrote 6:30-7:30 am, M-F, beginning on March 24. I finished the treatment on April 24.
Treatment excerpt for “Lookin’ for Liza Jane”