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Richie: I got time.

Bethany: I'm not going down for attempted murder.

Richie: Tell me the story in the warm. Get back to your house.

Bethany: If I'm going down for the rest of my natural -

Richie: It's too cold out here.

Bethany: I'm gonna make it worth it.

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10 mins of a radio play. Sounds easier than it will be. I mean, to say it, 10 mins is nothing;
finished, it's nothing; writing it takes a while.

Told to plot it today - nothing doing. Got as far as finding out what my story will be, finding
rough characters, the usual, then I started writing. I knew vaguely what was happening
when and where and stuff but I just can't keep to any real plan as I change my mind as often
as my socks. Could be absolutely fantastic, could be less than good. We'll soon se e.

Got this idea from Boomtown Rats song 'I don't like Mondays.' Didn't know the story well
so I researched it. Set my mind awandering - as most things tend to do.

Initial idea was to borrow heavily from it but my hands didn't want to write that story. Right
now, I'm using a few subtle points from it but they may go eventually too.

Wrote about 4 or 5 scenes straight off, then put it away, deleted some of it and rewrote the
rest. Think I may be pacing this a bit too fast - I think I'm gonna have a problem there. I am
trying to cram a lot into my extract that I need to leave behind. I'm emotionally attached to
a half-baked play - I find this disturbing.

I'll do up to a scene a day, I think. That way, I'm not racing myself, I can do other stuff and I
won't be able to write too much.