ABSTRACT
How long it takes depends on a lot of things-the person writing, her work habits, the desired length of the monologue, and also how much editing she is prepared to do. I know someone who once wrote a monologue in a weekend, and it was quite good. I also know someone who spent four years writing and editing a monologue, and she still wasn’t happy with it even when she finally performed it. For myself, when I write a forty-five-minute monologue it usually takes between six months and a year to distill all the things I want to talk about down to a manageable size and then severely edit it.
