First Draft is Complete!

I have really been struggling but I believe I am done with the first draft.  It still needs a lot of cleaning up, a better ending, and more action, but I feel like I've accomplished a lot - although it took me twice as long as I expected
to get to this point.

Now I get to put this aside for a few weeks and start working on my critique article.

I find myself really struggling with this kind of writing.  I knew it would be hard, but I am amazed at how difficult it is to take my ideas and make them work dramatically.  It is almost as if the things I know about plays, dramaturgy, telling a story - are all separate from what I'm trying to do here.  That is enormously frustrating.  At some point I will need to refresh this and let someone else read it.  Even better, listen to it read out load.  I'm not ready for that yet, though.  I'm not brave enough.

I love these pictures.  I can't wait to take what I have and go back to Lowell to take more photographs AND to find more photos and more lithographs of the early days.  That is a summer project.