Ready, steady, Monday
Oh, hi friends!
It can be hard to rally on a Monday.
Or when you’re sick. (Coughcough sneezesneeze napnap.)
Or when you’re coming down off a creative high!
Or when you’re trying to jump up from a low slump.
Or when you’re pulled this way > or that way <
Or when people need you.
But among all the competing emotions and distractions, one thing’s for sure.
Yes, it can be hard to rally...
But you've done it before, so you can do it again.
“The crucial thing in any work of any kind is that it must be a gift—the reader must possess it even more than the person who wrote it. It must be given completely.”
Time to give it up, folks!
From Jesse Ball’s essay in the lovely new book Light the Dark: Writers n Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process
Try Fail Try Fail Try Fail
This was a three-show weekend: my short play “Did You See?” was performed in a festival on Friday and Saturday nights, and the wonderful Amanda Bruton (above!) took my monologue “Cuffing Season” to new heights—and into the audience—at the Cherry Lane Theatre on Sunday night.
As always, I learned a lot from these experiences, but here’s one takeaway: I think sometimes we don’t try new things out of fear…our own fear, but also fear of judgment from other people. But what I’ve found is that when you try—if you try—people will show up. People like watching other people try.
So…*shrug*…why not give ‘em something to watch?
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Thanks, as always, for reading.
Love, Kara