I'm doing a staged reading of my one person piece, "so far" - tonight! I have to say I am REALLY proud of it and am actually patting myself on the back for going after this -- I was really scared in the beginning - but now I'm excited and just having fun.
It awakened a different part of my creative life --- using muscles I'd never used before. REALLY COOL.
I'm amazingly relaxed about it....(wow! That's a new one.....)
The big lesson I learned here:
Whilst I was chipping away at it - a lot of my friends were running around, doing their own thing - booking plays/films, making their own films, etc, etc. And its very natural, while being totally happy for them and supportive, to want to run off and go make my own film, refocus on auditioning, etc, etc because I see them bearing fruit in their own creative lives. I felt at times like I was missing out on something while I was focused on writing my piece. It was hard.
But now that I am doing this reading tonight - I'm really happy that I focused on it - as difficult as it might have been to switch gears, not compare myself to others, etc. And I made a whole new set of friends throughout this process - I have so many ideas of where I want to go next with it........
What I've learned about myself, is that its terribly important that I focus on the task at hand. I'm an Aries - I want to run around doing 1000 things at once - its a blessing and a curse at times! I get distracted REALLY easily ---
Speaking of getting distracted - I gotta wrap this up and go rehearse one more time today! Wish me luck tonight!!!
Onward and Upward (and everything in between!)
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