Step one: Get an idea. Step two: Do nothing
Oh, hi friends!
I had an idea for a play the other day. I liked it so much I took some notes in my phone and texted my brother Eric about it. I brainstormed lines with Colin. I thought about what the set would look like, how simple it could be. I thought about a few characters, wrote some observations.
Now, I did not sketch an outline. I didn’t start a new document. I did not make what you might call “real” progress. And I’ve only thought about it in a vague, roundabout way since last Thursday.
This is a wisp of an idea containing the promise of something more.
Now I can choose whether to keep it an illusion, or turn it into something real.
My choice.
Your choice, too.
We must protect what feels promising.
On dealing with criticism:
"What I care the most about is making something that I’m proud of. It would be devastating to me if I put something out there that I didn’t believe in, and no matter what the reaction was—positive or negative — it wouldn’t feel good.
It’s so much work — years of your life — so I ask myself: Is this something that I want to put out there? Is this a story I feel needs to be told, is there something new I can bring to it? Is there something fresh and different here?
And if there’s not, then I won’t get involved. I almost self-edit way early on in the process."
Yes, Nahnatchka Khan, yes.
OK, This Is Cute
A little Ben Folds with Fraggle Rock encouraging you to “do it anyway”? It’s the middle of February, folks. I’ll take it!! (h/t Danielle Friedman)
You might put your love and trust on the line
It's risky, people love to tear that down
Let 'em try
Do it anyway
Risk it anyway
And if you're paralyzed by a voice in your head
It's the standing still that should be scaring you instead
Go on and
Do it anyway
Do it anyway
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Love, Kara