clever me

I've figured out how to set up a scriptwriting template in Word. No buying $300 software for me.

Day 1 went well. I wrote twice my daily word count goal. Oddly enough, to write 20,000 words in 30 days, one needs to write 666 words a day. I'm going for 700 words a day, so as not to jinx it.

I listened to radio plays on BBC 7 online for most of the day to keep me in a dialogue-heavy mood. I wonder why the radio play died out in the US. Besides what Garrison Keillor does on Sundays on NPR, there aren't any stations that I know of that broadcast radio plays. I assume it has to do with the advent of TV, but the Brits have TV too (and far better TV that most of what we've got, in my opinion), and yet the radio play is still alive and well over there, and what a range - modern shows for kids and adults, comedy, drama, fantasy, sci fi, detective stories, dramatic readings of books and famous/classic plays. I begin to think that I may have been a Betty Roberts-type in a former life.

My favorite radio show today was Rigor Mortis - sort of a CSI done funny.

Job update - I've got two phone interviews on Monday, both for medical writing jobs, one in NY, one in Chicago, though I could work from home for either one.