State of the Art Work
Nov. 4th, 2014 02:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
missroseroseBetween my NNWM project, my audition preparations, and my normal day-to-day responsibilities, I feel like I'm working full-time again. Which is sort of nice, on the one hand, but would be nicer if I were getting paid for it. :P Some things are suffering - the house is a bit of a mess, I'm falling behind on my usual reading pace, and there's been a basket of laundry sitting by the couch needing to be folded for...three days now. But I'm keeping up on yoga, on managing finances and social calendar, and on civic duties (I was slightly entertained that nearly all the local offices on the ballot have precisely one, Democratic, candidate. Theatrically corrupt, indeed). And in the meantime, Important Art Things are happening.
My NaNo project is going pretty well; four days in, I'm averaging 1800 words a day. Yesterday was so far the worst for the pulling-teeth feeling; today I tried switching to first person, and it feels like it flows better. It still feels like I'm feeling my way through a cave blindfolded, though...I'm having trouble finding the main character's emotional core. I can picture it, can almost feel it in my own heart, but am having difficulty translating that into a voice. Which makes the fact that I've got more than 7500 words written already a little frustrating. But it's more than I've written in months now, so I'm not going to knock it.
The audition preparation, on the other hand, has hit a bit of a wall. It's actually a fairly major undertaking, with several parts: answering a questionnaire, providing a portfolio of work that demonstrates your voice and style, as well as writing and performing a two-minute-or-less monologue in the format of their show. I've at least got the questionnaire down, and suspect I can pull from my blog for much of the portfolio (especially a few pieces under the "culture" and "reviews" tags), but I'm having real trouble with the monologue. I've got a concept, and a place where it ends, and some ideas that all converge on that endpoint, but I'm having the damnedest time figuring out how to fit them together...and whenever I think I've figured out a solution, it just ends up causing six more problems. Augh. At this point I feel like I'm writing three different monologues. Still, even if the audition's unsuccessful, I feel like the introspection and articulation the prep has required is going to stand me in good stead in the future. So at least I'm not afraid I'm wasting my time.
My NaNo project is going pretty well; four days in, I'm averaging 1800 words a day. Yesterday was so far the worst for the pulling-teeth feeling; today I tried switching to first person, and it feels like it flows better. It still feels like I'm feeling my way through a cave blindfolded, though...I'm having trouble finding the main character's emotional core. I can picture it, can almost feel it in my own heart, but am having difficulty translating that into a voice. Which makes the fact that I've got more than 7500 words written already a little frustrating. But it's more than I've written in months now, so I'm not going to knock it.
The audition preparation, on the other hand, has hit a bit of a wall. It's actually a fairly major undertaking, with several parts: answering a questionnaire, providing a portfolio of work that demonstrates your voice and style, as well as writing and performing a two-minute-or-less monologue in the format of their show. I've at least got the questionnaire down, and suspect I can pull from my blog for much of the portfolio (especially a few pieces under the "culture" and "reviews" tags), but I'm having real trouble with the monologue. I've got a concept, and a place where it ends, and some ideas that all converge on that endpoint, but I'm having the damnedest time figuring out how to fit them together...and whenever I think I've figured out a solution, it just ends up causing six more problems. Augh. At this point I feel like I'm writing three different monologues. Still, even if the audition's unsuccessful, I feel like the introspection and articulation the prep has required is going to stand me in good stead in the future. So at least I'm not afraid I'm wasting my time.
