So, for quite a few years I have been entering the Writers of the Future contest. It a contest for SF and Fantasy writers, those who have not met the criteria for being a ‘pro,’ and I haven’t done terrible but neither have I won it. (three honorable mentions and three semi-finalist.) Now in addition to that I am considering something new.

Writing a play.

I have seen plays, I have read plays, I have studied — lightly– play structure, and I have even been in a play that people paid to see.  (And I am not talking about a school play where the parent show up out of sense of obligation vs people coming for entertainment.) However I have never attempting the writing of a play.

A friend of mine — thanks Marc Biagi —  shared a link on facebook to contest for original SF plays. It happened just as I was revising an older story of mine that as luck would have it, takes place in a single setting and pretty much in a single scene. (It’s a very short story a mere 1500 words.) My brain has been firing all day in an adaptation process for turning it into a single act play.

The deadline is far enough off that I think I could pull this off, even with the loads of OT I will be doing at my day job.

Dare I do it?