Long Term Work Reflection:

I am very proud of the work that I have done with my long term piece of work, a play titled “A Bad Error”, which is about three baseball players who are members of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, one of whom falls into debt with the wrong person and coerces his teammates to help him out of this dire situation by any means necessary.  I am currently finishing the latter part of the play, where the three baseball players, Andy, Brian, and Alex, break into the head of the Italian mafia’s Beverly Hills mansion and attempt to force him to relieve Andy of his mounting debts to him. 

For me, the biggest difficulty of the play was writing the dialogue to the point where it was not too “corny”, as there I utilize sarcasm throughout my play.  I wanted to make sure that my dialogue was funny and sarcastic, all the while not sacrificing the so-called integrity of my play and its dialogue.  My biggest triumph during the process of writing my play was coming up with a complex storyline and characters, both of which are essential toward coming out with a polished product at the end of the writing process.   I am very proud of what I have written and look forward to finishing this play tomorrow and maybe on the on the first day back from spring break.

When I do get back from break, I want to focus more on composing poetry, just as I did first semester as compared to this third quarter, and also want to experiment with other writing genres, such as six word memoirs, haikus, and a variety of others.

Sample passage from play on 3/18:

(Alex, Andy, and Brian are all in their Orange County apartment.  None of them have gone to bed, as they have been brainstorming ideas for Andy to get out of his debt issues at their kitchen table.

AC:  Anything?

BH:  No.

AG:  I MIGHT HAVE SOMETHING…!

(End scene)

(Open curtain.  Fabio (enforcer) and Mario (head of Italian mafia) are sitting at the local Sal’s diner.)

F:  Hey, boss!  Did you see that the Angels lost Game One?

M:  Yeah, but I feel like something fishy is going on.

F:  What do you mean, boss?

M:  I just feel like that punk Andy is going to squeal to his roommates, or worse, the cops!

F:  There is now way he would do that boss.  He is a smart guy.  He played baseball at Harvard.

M: Unfortunately, I think that Harvard education might help him get out of his debt problems.  Keep your eyes peeled and watch yourself out there.

F:  Whatever you say, boss.  You call the shots.

M:  That's right.  Now let's just hope that I am WRONG!

(End scene)

BG (Shouting to Alex and Andy):  Here is what we have to do!  Because Mario has leverage on you Alex, great job I might add, he can have you do whatever he wants, such as throw the FREAKING WORLD SERIES!!!

AC:  We established that already…

AG:  Hey! Let him finish…

AC:  Sorry.  Go ahead.

BG:  Like I was saying, we need to find leverage.  And I think I know how to get the upper hand in this battle.

AC and AG:  HOW?

BG:  Well, in order to even the scales, we need to do something to tip them back in our favor.  Our only option, since they warned you not to involve the authorities in any capacity, is to break into his house and fight fire with fire.

AC: But that is a crime!  I do not want to go to jail, Brian!

BG:  Well, it seems like someone has come up with a better plan…

AC:  No, but there has to be a better one than that.  There has to be, right?

AG:  No, not right.  This is the only way to try to exert power over the most powerful man in Los Angeles.  We need to bend the rules, in self-defense of Rigatoni literally owning you, Andy. 

BG:  I know that I am speaking for Alex and I, when I say that we both consider you a brother, and that we will risk anything to make sure that your are not going to permanently in real trouble, but right now we are out of options, and you should consider yourself lucky that we are willing to break the law for you.

AC: I know that I am lucky; I just cannot believe that it has come to this.