Radio Scripting

The "film" was out of control. I am still thinking like a novelist. There was too much dialog and too much description. I investigated a radio style scripting method which seems a better fit. If anything, this story will show up as a podcast either as a drama or as a novel. In working through the formatting, which is tiresome, I discovered my long, boring and lots of back story opening scene is pretty useless. I deleted it just now. I spent a lot of time with it, but it had to go. I'm thinking I need to write the story to fit into 2 1-hour (without commercials) sections. That's a bit more writing than the challenge but makes a certain amount of sense. Whether the story fits this way or not I can't tell at this point. What I hope this exercise is leading to in the final analysis is sorting out the plot of the novel which is vague at best. The beginning is fairly clear. The reason for Gwen Chen's murder is somewhat clear, but the scam is not clear at all in my mind. There just is one. So I'm hoping that gets sorted out and Star's conflict about friendship gets sorted out, too. I think that is the best I can hope for at this point.