Blog: We Have A First Draft

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As I speak I hold in my hands a completed first draft of Data And Doctor Doom, fully finished (for now) with songs and talking and everything! HOORAH!

According to the title page it's the second draft, but that's just because when I started it a couple of months ago I very quickly decided that two of the songs needed removing, but I didn't want to just DELETE them because they'd taken me flipping AGES to write. However, it's very much the first COMPLETED draft all the way through, and it sits beside a fully completed SLIDE DECK too, so I think it counts.

There are currently TWO HUNDRED AND SEVENTY slides in the aforementioned slide deck, which may seem like a lot (and has certainly FELT like a lot putting them together for the past month or so) but the show's meant to be about an hour long so that's only 4.5 slides a minute, or one slide every 12-ish seconds... which actually does seem quite a lot doesn't it?

The plan is to have a complete run through at some point in the next week for TIMING, just to check that it's the right length, and then after that it will be HO! for several weeks of LINES LEARNING. I really hate lines learning and these days I tend not to do it for presentations, preferring to just go through the general idea in my BRANE and then explain it as if I was... well, as if I was explaining it to people, which is what I AM doing. However, this time around I'm going to be singing songs and playing guitar at the same time as moving slides along with my FEET so I'm going to have to have a pretty clear and confident GRASP of how it all works.

It's all very exciting though, and does seem to WORK. I've got a PROJECTOR on order too, so when that arrives I can hook it all together and have a proper GO. It's all SCARY but also a RELIEF to think that there now IS a show to do at the various gigs what I've booked (and am still in the process of booking). It's happening!

posted 31/3/2025 by MJ Hibbett

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