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Day 3 Assignments
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Lois finished act 3
ext – skunk farm near home buildings – day
Left to right, hen house, Polecat family home, Everything For Your Skunk shop. Meff / Skunk scowls at Aunt Abigail.
MEFF / Skunk
I’m late to my birthday party. Nobody’s going to give me presents if I come in smelling like this!
AUNT ABIGAIL / SKUNK
It’s your party. You can stink if you want to.
She dances and sings
AUNT ABIGAIL / SKUNK
Stink if you want to. Stink if you want to.
Meff joins in.
MEFF / SKUNK
Stink if I want to. Stink if I want to.
AUNT ABIGAIL / SKUNK
Skunk parties are way more fun that a birthday party. Come on! We’re having one in the cave.
Meff stops to smell something interesting.
Aunt Abigail / Skunk motions Meff to follow her as she scampers up the hill.
A horned owl swoops down from a tree toward Meff.
AUNT ABIGAIL / SKUNK
Run!
Meff glances at Aunt Abigail. She’s too far away, and she’s out in the open. He dashes under a potting bench.
The owl swoops lower beak towards him.
He dashes under a picnic table.
His sister POLLY POLECAT opens the hen house door. (Polly is a young I-Love-Lucy type, enthusiastic and trouble-making.) He runs for the open doorway. Mom is visible milking a goat. Polly holds a basket of eggs.
Polly is wearing a bracelet made of the same kind of stone that Kamali Parker stole. One red chunk is shaped like a heart. Other beads are alphabet beads like on baby ID bracelets. These say, “I LOVE SKUNKS.”
Mom
Oh, Polly, that’s a sweet bracelet, but…
POLLY
You know how a skunk growls and bares its fangs?
(beat)
Then if the attacker persists, it turns its back like it’s ready to give up
(beat)
and then when everything looks lost, the skunk raises its tail and sprays – – right in the eyes!
(beat)
That’ s why I love skunks.
mom
You know the rule. None of the asteroid rock must ever leave our farm.
Meff dashes inside. Polly slams the hen house door shut.
Meff hears Polly’s words and hangs his head in shame. He has not acted like a skunk.
The horned owl swoops up up into the sky, heading back to the lab.
Polly heads back to the nests.
POLLY
(glancing at Mom)
What should I do with these stinky rotten eggs?
mom
Leave them there. The skunks love them.
Meff shakes his head. He does not love rotten eggs.
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Lisa’s finished act two
What I learned doing this assignment is that I still need to figure some things out for this act. It’s not perfect, but I gotta keep going. I started to get hung up on some details and didn’t like the dialogue, but I stoped myself from stopping writing and just kept working until I was finished.
Rule 1: b
Rule 2: a
Rule 3: b
Rule 4: a
Rule 5: b
Rule 6: b
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ACT 2 first draft
I learned that my outline is not really in the best order, I am placing scenes in different areas as I write to give it better flow.
Because of the High Speed Writing Rules I am able to continue on regardless of not knowing all the answers! FAB!
Rule 1.A
Rule 2. b
Rule 3. A
Rule 4. A
Rule 5. b
Rule 6. A
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