Shoot me now!

Playwriting will be the death of me - I just know it! Not the actual work of playwriting, the class. Today we talked all about a scenario (classic dramaturgy) and Sam Smiley's method. Claudia should be smiling somewhere. I don't have a problem with Smiley's book or his methods, except when trying to apply them to myself. I am not that kind of writer. I don't plan or outline or do any of that stuff that we are going to have to do in order to get a decent grade in this class. Grrr! I really don't know if I can actually do it - I mean, I know I will because I need to pass the course - but I don't know if I can come up with anything resembling a performable piece of theatre by doing this. Well, we don't have to write the play, just the scenario. My fear is I'll get to the next class and he'll make us use the scenario we created in this class to write a full-length play. We're writing one-acts in this class. And if that happens, I don't know what I'll do. In addition to feeling like I'm in remedial playwriting, I also feel very constrained right now. I don't know how I'm going to come up with something by the end of the semester and waiting until the last minute I know is not a good idea. Where is a germinal image when I need one, huh?