I started working on my first script a couple of years ago, and I regret that I’m still working on it. I keep telling myself that when I finish school (for real finish … because I’m not going back for more!), then I’ll have time to complete these lingering projects.

I have had the idea for the story for several years, and I actually started writing it in prose form about 10 years ago, but my computer crashed, and I was so disappointed to lose all that work that I put the idea aside. I considered it again when I read about a playwriting contest through NaNoWriMo, called Script Frenzy. I didn’t make the 100-page goal by any stretch, but it did encourage me to dust off the cobwebs from my imagination and put my tale into words again.

My writing style veers toward stream-of-consciousness more so than strict outlines, so I could not tell you today how the play will end. I have a general idea of certain plot elements, but I’m letting it fall together as I write. With no further ado, I present to you the teaser for my play, Daughter of Prejudice:

Daddy’s girl is engaged to be married. His precious, treasured Hyacinthe – his Cindy – is no longer the little girl of his mind’s eye. She has bloomed into a confident young woman, and it is time for her to learn the secret of her namesake. Cliff remembers it all: the broken flower pot, the missing person, the investigation, the conviction – like it was yesterday. She needs to know the story that has haunted him all these years.

Daughter of Prejudice is a coming-of-age tale about a newly engaged young woman who must come to terms with a family secret and learn how to overcome generations of mistrust. It is different from anything else I have ever written, and parts of it are very difficult because of the controversial subject matter, but it is an exciting project that I hope to devote more time to in the not-too-distant future.