Anyway, over the past couple of weeks, I have been working on my very first screenplay. After doing Crystal's workshop over the summer, I was inspired. I had (Still have) A writer's block when it comes to my play, and the screenplay ideas have been flowing out so I have been putting my focus onto that.
It is unnamed as of now, but it's about Austin Kratner, a teenage boy, who copes with the suicide of his best friend, Danielle "Dani" Gold.
I have about 13 pages done already, but today, I worked on one of the monologues. I don't know if that is good or bad, but when an idea pops into my head I have to write it, even if it is at the complete end of the story.
In this scene, Austin is finally opening up about what went down minutes before Dani killed herself.
Austin: I stayed in the hallway for a little while to let her cool off. A half hour passed and I thought I would check up on her cause I hadn’t heard her moving around in a while, but when I went to go open the door, it was locked (his eyes tear up) I yelled her name a few times, but there wasn’t an answer. Her mom must have heard me because she came up as soon as I started yelling. She tried getting Dani to open the door, but, nothing. So her dad tried, and after a while we knew something was wrong. He went and got the key to her room and there she was, lying on the bed with blood trickling down her arms, completely unconscious, blade in hand.(Austin begins to cry; Kelly reaches out and grabs his hand) By the time we got to the hospital it was too late. She had lost way too much blood to have a transfusion; her brain was already swelling too much. She died within minutes.
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