Draft IV: By The Numbers

Well, as per usual, I crunched the numbers and got some interesting results (at least for me, who is clearly trying to push Sabermetrics into play writing). Here are a few little points:

- The play ballooned up by 4 3/8s pages, including a page jump in the Alison/Toby seduction scene to include the other girls and a page jump in the scene with Alison and Sarah that leads Alison to seek Beth's assistance.

- Biggest trim came in the Dean Anderson/Major scene, losing 6/8ths of a page.

- There was a net gain of 30 new lines with this draft. This makes for 59 new dialogue parts in the past two drafts. So much for scaling down....

- If your character figures large in Alison's story when Will's not around, you probably got more lines (Sarah was the biggest gainer with 9 more lines than last draft). Alison also has the most lines, beating Will by 3. Finally.

- I barely touched a few scenes, specifically Eric/Will with the cat monologue, the Yeah Dudes scene (just omitted Gavin), and Will/Vicky's scenes all went mostly unchanged.

And, finally, as a treat to you, here is the new Alison/Will scene when they talk in the hallway. Well, if you can read my handwriting, that is.



Looks like something you'd find on DeviantArt or something. For the record, nothing below the opening description stayed until Will's "it's not that easy" on your page 33.