September Stages

Rain returned to Southern California--significant rain, which we haven't seen down in here more than six months. Personally, I'm thrilled. To me, it means change.

September is always a good month to return to an old book and consider that winter is coming. The light changes on the West Coast. You begin to slow down. And while the "winter" in the Southland is hardly like anywhere else, it is nevertheless four months of cool dark nights and orange-bright days.

But today, rain--for a while, at least. I'll take that. In this transitional period any kind of change is good.

West Coast Hearts is actually a project about change. I'm removing the melodrama from the project and have relocated it to a few destructive scenes, which means to me it could be translated to a theater project. Indeed, I've begun in earnest working on a few plays and the more I thought about this particular project the more I realized it belonged on the stage.

But I digress. All theater begins after an event. And what you see is a reaction to said event. Since West Cost Hearts was essentially dealing with infidelities, the narrative would be strong enough to play out on the stage and certainly more realized. It also allows for a compact period of time--and immediacy to the subject.

Now all I have to do is write the damn thing. Dryline Rhapsody took nine months to complete. This project has been kicking around in my head for quite a while (probably since I moved down here to Orange County). The upshot is that I have an agent waiting in the wings for this stuff. Let him wait.