Writing a Fairytale Where You're the Princess
Again, blogging about the process of writing my solo show. Moving along, little by little but feeling a bit more prepared with each step.
I’m in the process of writing and performing a solo show, that will last about a half an hour. Last week, I blogged about how nervous and intimidated I was, but this week, I feel a bit more prepared. This semester we have a lot of classes to help us gear up for this project, and I’ve been trying to utilize all of them to my benefit. In writing and producing, I’m figuring how I’m going to tackle the technicality and soul of the show, and in my spare time I’ve gotten together with my teacher to further discover just what my show is going to be about.
That meeting started with just questions… lots of questions that had to do with how I ended up in Norway, and why. Soon I found I had been telling my story for a half and hour or more… In a sense, I had my show. It’s going to take a lot more work with writing, not to mention making it entertaining and worth watching. I don’t want to assume that my story is so interesting that anyone will want to hear it, I want to make it thought provoking and inspirational.
To help me put this together I’ve also started working on a mood board to better get the feel of my story, and I’ve started thinking about working titles but haven’t settled on one yet. I think when it pops up in my mind I’ll feel strongly that it’s the right one.
My overall message is that no matter how bad you’ve got it now, if you put in the work and you have the desire, you will get what you want, even if it seems impossible. My story sometimes feels like a fairy tale; so much in fact, that I think I’m going to wake up one day and none of it will have happened. Sometimes I feel so overwhelmed that I really can’t think about enough or I’ll panic and even sabatoge it. It’s a story not of happy endings, but of happy beginnings. Part of me feels that my life didn’t really begin until I met Alexander and made the move here.
What it comes down to is: I need to start writing more. Not only writing my show, but just writing! Getting used to putting words down that people will want to read/hear. I almost considered writing a series of blog posts that will essentially be the written word of my show, but I think I won’t do that until after the production is over. Until then, I need to keep these fingers moving across the board, and trust the fact that the words and the audience will come. **
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