An interesting exercise.

I've just sent off a one-minute play to a competition (the GI60 — "Gone In 60 [seconds]" — comp.). As always, I'm absolutely certain I will win a place in the roster of shows performed, and I'm absolutely certain I've just embarrassed myself horribly. But all that's irrelevant, now I've hit the Send key.

The real point of the thing has been that I've done something with my writing I've never done before: written a complete play, with a beginning, a middle, and an end, with a theme, with character arcs (and, for that matter, characters), and it all takes place in one minute of real time. One minute. It was really hard. I like doing new things — new for me, at least — with my writing.

By the way, submissions don't close until May 1. There's still time for you to get your script in!