Working on The Green Bird and my brain sidles up to me, “Forget this one, baby. I’ve got a better idea.”
“Not now. I’m finishing this first.”
“How about this: We write a whole play in Fakespeare!”
“Go away.”
“OK, Plenty more where that came from. Gender flipped Peter Pan.”
“Ugh, no.”
“Two words: Casual vampires.”
“…That’s it? That’s not even anything!”
“A Cinderella story that’s ALSO a Cinderella story. Like, a sports one but ALSO the fairy tale.”
“Now you’re just embarrassing yourself.”
“No! Don’t put on your headphones! These ideas are solid gold, baby.”
“I’m trying to work here.” Puts headphones on. About to hit play.
“Lysistrata but they’re withholding the wifi passwords!”
“Actually that one… Goddamn it, no!”
I turn the music up and force myself to keep typing as brain produces second rate idea after idea from shady pocket inside coat jacket.
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
Yes! I hear you on this one. I just finished an adaptation of The Serpent Woman and lots of other things have been tugging on my brain. I love your Three Oranges. I’m so glad you are tackling another one!
I have not read The Serpent Woman, I would love to read your adaptation once I do! I think I need a break from Carlo for a while, he and I have a weird relationship!