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rmRehearsal went fine yesterday. Am I a terrible person because I feel like a real actor now because for the first time in my life I had to sit around with a cast member and go "Hrrr... well... right... and the kiss will go like this? Okay." God that shit is uncomfortable. But it didn't really bother me that it was uncomfortable. It just was what it was.
I finally got in to audition too, and it felt good. I don't think I got it for any number of reasons. But it's hard to go in and do a monologue when you've been sweating for four hours, _and_ everyone going in ahead of you is doing "this is Shakespeare so I will yell!" My Lady Anne doesn't yell, at least in this monologue. Anyway, I have to do it again this week for an educational touring company in NJ or some such. I'm looking forward to it, because I like doing this monologue, and I like that even when I don't get cast with it, people always seem to have gotten something they did not expect from it.
Last night after all this, I woke up hours after I was supposed to be somewhere, big oops. So I'm just glad I got to meet Sunyata prior to missing Italian food in Brooklyn.
Today I essentially have what is a day off. My only definitive plans (other than working out) are having to do some stuff at Kinkos and having to send out some submissions, including a few to agencies who are looking to pick up people. While my acting career has exceeded my expectations for the year thus far, my private goal has been union membership or an agent by the end of the year, and that's looking less likely than I would like, even if I've also learned how much more I can do without those things than I thought (and how much harder it is to get those things than I thought).
Also, must work my lines today.
Finally, I would like to note that just because you're writing something in formal language does not require you to forget Show Don't Tell. Gah.
Thinking of having brunch alone, either at the Cow or Schiller's Liquor bar... but it's raining, but it seems gross out, and I feel restless, and I'm not sure either of those activities will provide whatever the bloody hell it is I am looking for.
I finally got in to audition too, and it felt good. I don't think I got it for any number of reasons. But it's hard to go in and do a monologue when you've been sweating for four hours, _and_ everyone going in ahead of you is doing "this is Shakespeare so I will yell!" My Lady Anne doesn't yell, at least in this monologue. Anyway, I have to do it again this week for an educational touring company in NJ or some such. I'm looking forward to it, because I like doing this monologue, and I like that even when I don't get cast with it, people always seem to have gotten something they did not expect from it.
Last night after all this, I woke up hours after I was supposed to be somewhere, big oops. So I'm just glad I got to meet Sunyata prior to missing Italian food in Brooklyn.
Today I essentially have what is a day off. My only definitive plans (other than working out) are having to do some stuff at Kinkos and having to send out some submissions, including a few to agencies who are looking to pick up people. While my acting career has exceeded my expectations for the year thus far, my private goal has been union membership or an agent by the end of the year, and that's looking less likely than I would like, even if I've also learned how much more I can do without those things than I thought (and how much harder it is to get those things than I thought).
Also, must work my lines today.
Finally, I would like to note that just because you're writing something in formal language does not require you to forget Show Don't Tell. Gah.
Thinking of having brunch alone, either at the Cow or Schiller's Liquor bar... but it's raining, but it seems gross out, and I feel restless, and I'm not sure either of those activities will provide whatever the bloody hell it is I am looking for.
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Date: 2004-08-01 09:05 am (UTC)The more formal you get, the more ability and precision you (usually) intend to communicate. You'd think show-don't-tell would obviously apply. You'd think.
Makes me wonder what you read that spurred that comment.
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Date: 2004-08-01 09:07 am (UTC)I love formal language in writing, but it's very very hard to do, and I struggle with it immensely in both my original work and my forays into fandom, not always successfully. I usually fail though as regards excessive convolution or because it's clear I got tired halfway through and am skipping about too much. I don't tend to fuck up because I think formal language will somehow mask bad writing and a lack of emotional resonance. Formal language highlights that shit entirely.
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Date: 2004-08-01 01:42 pm (UTC)Exactly, because it stands out so much more.