monodrama update

Today I spent some time editing my monologue for our midterm project. I hadn't changed much of it since the beginning of the process and it was still looking like a first draft. Maybe I hadn't tried to fix it because I figured it was good enough to get me a decent grade. But today I finally sat down and looked at it and I realized it was very stale. There were no glaring errors or anything I could label as particularly "bad," but it was just really flat. My monologue was originally about receiving my acceptance letter from William and Mary in the mail, something you'd think could make for a really exciting monologue. Well, it wasn't. It was pretty boring, and I didn't hear much of my own voice coming through it. So I sat down to edit it today, planning on tweaking things here or there, and I ended up with an entirely different piece! It would take a long time to explain how it got to this point, but now my monologue is about how my grandmother's death this spring affected my family. It's a very different subject I know, and one that's kind of hard for me to talk about, but I feel a lot better about my monologue now. It's genuine, and, cheesy as this sounds, I'm speaking more from the heart. Even if the monologue is a bit of a downer now, I'm glad it says something that matters to me.