Trying to decide what comes next

I've been paddling as fast as I can lately, trying to figure out what comes next from a writing standpoint. I've been writing little snippets of things . . . two character short pieces that are unrelated other than they are a man and a woman in various places. The first is a married couple during a blackout, the second is a guy who meets a girl on the subway and gets the book she is reading to impress her, the third one was two actors waiting in line at an audition and the fourth is a guy meeting an old flame in a bar.

Simple clean. Short and sweet. Each one a little self contained nugget. I'll keep adding to these possibly . . . it's fun to bang them out and they seem to go over well in the workshop. So that's one thing. To try to tie them up into something . . . a larger whole comprised of a series of short pieces.

I also have a few monologues that I've written . . . not full length kind of things but little snippets that aren't part of anything larger. There are four of these as well . . . I wonder if they are related somehow? Or if they can be.

Then I thought of my screenplay the Craftsman. I thought about that as I was wondering if Old Hickory is appropriate in the current climate. In The Craftsman it looks like it is building to a murder . . . but the murder doesn't actually happen.

I pulled it out and read it today (1995 copyright!?). It would be very difficult to just take the screenplay and make a play out of it, but some of the characters are priceless . . . so maybe another way of looking at it. Just Jimmy and his wife and the framer perhaps, without the hallucinations he has . . . or maybe the hallucinations can be tweaked.

Anyway . . . a lot to think about. All this wheel spinning has been a little productive . . . So now I have these three directions to go in . . do I have to choose just one or do I try to bring it all together?

Anyway . . .that's where I am right now . . . I do want to work on the Craftsman I think, but I also want to leave the antennae open for the other stuff as well. If an idea occurs to me for another duet then fine. If some way of bringing these monologues together slaps me upside the head? Fine.

I think the secret is to stay open to being tapped by the muse.

I'm also going to start using the blog as a way to keep a hand in. Writing is writing is writing. Getting into the habit of doing it is the important thing.