Got a good start.

We had everyone show up, except Sarah; she was out of town on business.

It was decided everyone would attempt to make my show next week, when Sarah has returned. And two weeks after that, we're hoping to trek out to "American Stage" to see their new show: "Pipeline."

We got to work pretty quickly after that. I was pretty adamant about us keeping on task so we could start the script off on solid footing. Thankfully, we had already written down a lot of the ideas we spoke of last week, so we just needed to build on them and put them in order. I asked everyone if they wanted to use "Image Theatre" to help get our juices flowing, but it was decided we would brainstorm around the table until we got stuck (which we didn't).

I was very happy with everyone's participation, and even made two of us take turns writing down all of the ideas that were being presented. (María's turn next week!) From where I was sitting, I helped by using the boards last week, they could help by taking notes this week.

And we made wonderful progress. We were able to solidify character names, who would be playing what, gave some coloring as to who the characters were, established the story and how it would begin, and got to about four or five beats into the piece.

At this rate, we should be able to finish the script by March, then take a month to edit and tweak, and have it ready to submit by the April deadline for the Festival.

I can't wait to see how things turn out next week!