I had to write two plays for two of my classes. So I wrote one play for both class. And it was during nanowrimo...so it's about someone writing a novel...I thought I should share my masterpiece that I got 108% on...shocker.
See Girl Write by: Kendra
Characters:
Kendra, the girl who is writing a novel
Characters of the Novel:
Melody/Emma/Emily, the main character of the novel
Micheal, the main guy character of the novel
Andrew, Micheal’s best friend in the novel
Amy, Melody’s best friend in the novel
Abree, Melody’s other best friend in the novel
SCENE: Kendra sits on the couch with her laptop on her lap. She sighs every once and awhile and then starts to type. Then deletes what she has on her laptop and sighs again.
Kendra: (typing on the laptop) A teenage girl with blond locks and bright blues eyes is talking with her two best friends who happen to be twins, Amy and Abree Smith from down the street of hers.
On the other side of the stage walks out of the curtain a teenage girl with blonde hair walks out with two girls. They stand their talking quietly the audience can’t hear what they are saying.
Kendra: (typing) The teenage girl turns to her friends and says, “Well, you know how Micheal is, he turns up late every time we try to do things.” The other girls started to laugh. (stops typing and then sighs, you can see the movement of her arms and the clicking of the mouse as she tries to change something on her computer screen) Okay, lets try this…A teenage girl with brown locks and bright brown eyes is talking…
The teenage girl with the blonde hair puts on a wig of brown hair to indicate the change and she mutters to her friends about the guy that never shows.
Kendra: (typing) Amy the girl on brunette’s left turns to her friend and says, Sweetie he still thinks you are his best friend and nothing more so of course he doesn’t get here on time.
All three girls turn and look at Kendra with shocked faces like oh no you did not just type that for us to say kind of look.
Amy: I am not going to tell my best friend of three years that Micheal doesn’t care about her more then a best friend. You don’t tell someone that, you sugar coat it. Get it straight, or we will not help you with this story.
Abree: (shaking her head) What kind of author of a romance novel are you anyway?
Kendra: Okay, Okay, calm down. (starts to type again) Amy turned to her friend and says, “Sweetie the boy loves you and he hates to show up late.”
The girls all nodded and started to talk again amongst themselves. Kendra sighs and kept typing away.
Kendra: By the time Micheal did show up he noticed that Emma’s beautiful locks were like fire in the wind.
The teenage girl looks at the author with an annoyed look and takes off the brown wig and puts a red wig on to cover her blonde wig.
Kendra: Micheal smiles at Emma and says, “Sorry I’m late. The traffic held me up.” Emma turned to Micheal and replied, “Micheal, who was the girl.”
Micheal and Emma turn to Kendra.
Emma: Excuse me, I wouldn’t be so blunt. I am suppose to be a shy girl and stop changing my hair color. And really red, you had to choose red. I don’t even like red hair.
Kendra: (looks at Emma) That is true you don’t look good in red hair let’s change it to black the final time.
Emma takes off the red wig and puts long shiny black hair wig on her head. She straightens it out and smiles.
Kendra: (uses the mouse and changes a couple words on the novel) Emily turned to Micheal and said, “Micheal, it’s fine. Just try and be here more on time.” Micheal smiled at Emily and said, “it’s not a problem really.” As Micheal and Emily had their own conversation because every time it’s the four of them it seemed like really Amy and Abree were not even there in Emily and Micheal’s eyes.
Amy and Abree give Micheal and Melody a mean look then got an evil smile on their face. They started to slowly drift away from Melody and Micheal towards Kendra on the couch. Once they were behind her.
Abree: (looks at Kendra) Can I have a line or two to say please. Or am I not even in the novel.
Amy: But also, how about myself and Abree. And maybe a friend of Micheal’s try to come up with an evil plan to destroy the two of them because they have started to ignore us. (starts to get an evil look about her)
Abree: (shakes her head) No, I have one better. How about we come up with an idea to help them get together. Then we wouldn’t have to hear them complain about how they can’t tell the others they love each other.
Amy: Your such a sap.
Abree: (looks at Amy and glares) Well, your such a bitch.
Kendra: Okay, Okay girls. Lets do Abree’s plan because it is a romance novel.
Amy: You mean it was going to be a romance novel…
Kendra: (interrupting Amy sentence) No…it is a romance novel.
Amy: (sighs really big) Okay, Okay…have it your way. It’s your funeral.
Kendra: No, it’s my novel.
Emily and Micheal turn and realize that they missed something.
Emily: (laughs) Actually hate to break it to, but you are only around Kendra to write the words. It’s actually our novel because we run the show.
Kendra rolls her eyes and starts to type again.
Kendra: Emily turned to her friends and see their evil glint in their eyes. She knew that she missed something between her friends. She also knew that she had to ask them later what it was about. (sighs and re reads the last sentence)
I am going to have to change Emily’s name. What to change it to…(clicks her tongue) I know, how about Melody.
Emily/Melody: Are you done?
Kendra: Yeah, it’s going to be Melody with black locks and green eyes. (starts to type) They all started to head into the coffee shop to start their normal routine in the mornings. Which is breakfast on Tuesday and Thursdays at the local coffee shop. Which is always why Micheal is late because he always hits the snooze button.
The characters all turned and looked at Kendra. Kendra gave them a look that said what. Micheal sighed.
Micheal: Well, it just not a good paragraph that is for sure.
Melody: Yeah, and we really don’t want to sound retarded either.
Amy: That wouldn’t be a good idea, now would it.
Kendra: This is just the first draft. It takes ages to finally have a final copy of your novel to turn in to the editor. And still your novel isn’t done they even edit it and change things in your novel.
Melody: Then why write really…(looks at Kendra with a well look)
Kendra: (smiles at the thought) Well, I want to show the world you guys even though you guys are a pain in my butt. I wanted to show them your world and your struggles.
Melody: Oh…I see
Amy: So…your using us.
Micheal: Well she did create us.
Kendra: (starts to type again) Melody grabbed Micheal before he walked into the store and kissed him hard on the lips to show him how much she loves him.
Melody, Micheal, Amy, and Abree turned and looked at Kendra like she lost her mind and screwed up the plot.
Melody: WHAT!
Micheal: WHAT!
Abree: WHAT!
Amy: (walks up to Kendra while she is still sitting on the couch and slaps Kendra hard across the face)
A young man with blonde hair pops up out of the first row of sits in the theatre and yells.
Andrew: WHAT ABOUT ME!
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Characters take on life sometimes by luck, but I suspect it is when you can write more entirely out of yourself, inside the skin, heart, mind, and soul of a person who is not yourself, that a character becomes in his own right another human being on the p
