November 2017 Writing Challenge - #15 - Male Playwrights

Write what a male playwright writes like.  If you’re a male playwright ALSO DO THIS.  I’m not saying to write with the authority of an authentic male who is therefore an example of what a male writes like. I’m saying write by participating in the larger thing called male FIRST and channeling that and letting that be the filter or prism or echo chamber or amplifier or… whatever that colors everything else. Place manhood FIRST. 

Change to posting with an alias if you’d like. Protect yourself. I get it.  

Does this make you get writers block? It’s because you’re trying to be “good” or “correct” and haven’t given yourself any possibility for an decent inciting incident. Create an imbalance!  Or better yet acknowledge that inside of the idea of male there are things that are out of balance. 

Spoiler. We just did this in the idea of female. Or maybe you skipped it to do this first. That's probably what I would have done. 

Don’t like this challenge?  

Write a kids play... a kids play that has a very adult truth... that is candy coated. Make adults cry in a kids play.

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Another part of the ending...

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MICAH sits alone with his guitar.

He works his way through the chords, speaking as he goes, of the song Auggie wrote for him.  Maybe a stab at bits of the melody in his calling out of the chord names.

                          MICAH

     (sing-song)

C major, A minor, F major 7th, G major

With MICAH still visible, we now also see AUGGIE and SARAH sitting together.

AUGGIE rests his head on SARAH's shoulder.

SARAH runs her hand through AUGGIE's hair.

AUGGIE has a hand on SARAH's stomach.

                          MICAH (cont'd)

     (sing-song)

C major, A minor, F major 7th, G major

With MICAH, AUGGIE and SARAH all still visible, we now also see JEFFREY hanging out with DUNCAN at the wiccan store.

                          MICAH (cont'd)

     (sing-song)

F major 7th, G major, E minor, A minor

F major 7th, G major, E minor, A minor

And now MICAH has hit the chorus, and sings the words.

But it's not quite the perky version that Auggie first sang.

                          MICAH (cont'd)

     (singing)

There was a

hole at the

center of my life.

JEFFREY and DUNCAN slowly fade away into the dark.

                          MICAH (cont'd)

     (singing)

Hole at the

center of my life.

AUGGIE and SARAH slowly fade away into the dark.

                          MICAH (cont'd)

     (singing)

There was a

hole at the

center of my,

center of my life.

MICAH sits alone with his guitar, surrounded by darkness.

                          MICAH (cont'd)

     (singing)

But life's -

MICAH stops singing and playing for a second.

Then, without speaking or calling it out, he plays the last chords to finish the thought. 

D minor,

G major,

C major,

C major.

MICAH sits with the guitar.

The last of the lights around him fade to black.