The thing about deadlines

The London Diary: No. 1

Where: London
When: Some days towards the end of July

Last year, I put a reminder in my calendar to check if applications had opened for an introduction to playwriting course with one of my favourite theatre companies in London.

I’d check the website, see there were no updates, and methodically move the reminder along. Last week, I checked again and saw the deadline was Friday.

With everything I’m trying to do to establish my new life in London—settle into a space, find more work, meet with people, meet deadlines, go on dates, build a social life—I didn’t know how I was going to write a scene from an unimagined play in a week, so it quickly fell to the bottom of my to-do list.