Brains!

So I’m taking Dramatic Writing. I’m supposed to be writing scenes, one due Tuesday. It’s so damn hard! I haven’t written on purpose for a long time. I mean I have written, just not with a deadline, not with goals. Maybe that’s why my writing never actually goes anywhere. I don’t have structure or focus or goals. Either way I keep writing dialogue and its just stupid. I can’t see how my characters would say something. I don’t know how they would react because I am not them. I keep thinking I should write something closer to home but I cant freaking think of anything interesting. The assignment that’s due Tuesday is called obstacles. I create a character that has goals but meets three obstacles along the way. I can’t do it! I keep thinking about how people will react to it when it’s read in class. Everything I come up with sounds stupid. I think I might be stressing out too much. I’m going to make James help me tonight. He’s funny at least he can help me write something funny. I just hope this class teaches me how to start and not abandon ideas and write something with purpose. I haven’t actually taken a “fun writing” class in a long time and it’s throwing me through a loop. Plus I have never actually written scenes. What I really want to do most of the time is make too many stage directions, or describe what the character looks like or their clothes and history. I never really thought it would be this hard. But it is-I’ve a new found respect for play writes and screen writers. I think this is the most challenging thing I have ever had to do for writing!