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I have a lot on my mind this week, particularly in thinking about form for my piece. On one hand, I enjoy writing it out as a script, since it gives me room to play with body horror without needing to write out narrative and context, but on the other hand, it may not translate very well to being recorded, since the stage directions would go unspoken. I tried rewriting it as a prose narrative piece for my workshop this week, but I’m unsure if it would work better this way instead of the initial script formatting I used. Kind of pulling from Dictee, I wonder if I can play with formatting more in this piece.

Not so much switching into poetry and hand-written bits, but maybe using both prose and script formatting. I’m still worried about recordability, but it’s worth thinking about. I’m trying to work on a separate document where I jot down things I want to include within my piece later, so that I can work on characterization, since I’m having a hard time thinking about other potential characters that Clara might mention within her reports on the air. Maybe I should mess around with putting ideas into a random number picker so that I can combine them in new and interesting ways. Trying to lean into the nonsense sounds really fun on paper, but in action it’s a bit time consuming when I have to make plans to make the nonsense fit and flow better.

Dictee had such an interesting way to convey stories, through Kanji and photos and references to greek mythology. There’s so much symbolism there despite its haphazard appearance (I know it’s not actually haphazard, but it switches between forms so smoothly that it almost feels intentionally that way). I’m not sure how I can incorporate that idea/feeling into my own work, but it’s something I’ve been thinking about, tinkering with, and otherwise ripping my hair out brainstorming.