Pulling the thread
Oh, hi friends!
How can you pull the thread today?
I’m talking about something you actually want to unravel.
Last week I pulled the thread by texting two friends, “Hi Niles and Daphne, would you be available next Wednesday for a reading of my Frasier spec?”
Because these friends — Susannah and Jay Ben — are wonderful and game, they said yes!
The thread was pulled. Because I got them to commit one of their weeknights to my idea, suddenly I had to commit, too.
Pulling the thread harder meant asking additional friends to join the cast. (A Frasier script needs a Frasier Crane…and a Roz…and a Frederick Crane…and guest callers…and a possible new love interest…and a theme song maestro.)
And when nine people are committed, you can’t un-pull the thread. You can’t cancel. You’d be a monster.
So you pull it a little more.
I did this by asking a few trusted folks if they might want to, I dunno, come by and be our studio audience? And they said yes, too!
Now I’ve got commitments from a bunch of people, a sorta plan in place, and a huge pile of thread.
There’s nothing left to do but to do it.
And that’s how, on Wednesday night, I ended up holding a reading of the Frasier reboot script I wrote last month. It was fun, illuminating, and full of sherry.
I didn’t want another draft to die on my desktop.
So I pulled the thread. Just a tiny bit. And you can, too.
“A word after a word after a word is power.”
— Margaret Atwood
Listening to this podcast episode of The Moment with Brian Koppelman yesterday was one of the highlights of my month. His interview with Seth Godin touches on impostor syndrome, finding your fans, being original vs. copying, and how creating comes from craft not “genius.” Listen here.
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Thanks, as always, for reading.
Love, Kara