I find this to be a great example of sticking with something. Personally, I learned the value of perseverance by practicing illusions. I kept trying to make a card disappear, day in and day out, whenever I had free time on my hands (no pun intended), and one day, the card disappeared with such a beautiful fluidity. I was astonished! In the same way that these actors screw up a thousand times before finding that one method that does work,
success in many things, be it magical effects or writing, comes from a string of failures. I’ve known this for a while now, but it’s encouraging to read about it in a different light.

Thanks for the inspiration, I’ll be writing a blog post about perseverance next week thanks to this post!
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Ashland is an interesting little town. In LA you’re likely to see a celebrity or two if you’re out and in the right spots, but in Ashland the OSF actors, including Tony, are always around town – in the supermarket, the Black Sheep Pub, at the library, etc. Everyone knows everyone because it’s basically River City Iowa. There’s even a billiard table.

I hope you made it into the aforementioned Black Sheep Pub, Tei. I cried over many a pint in there.
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Write a writing – Sweetheart, for the second time now, I can’t figure out what you’re responding to in the post, so I’m not sure how to respond. I can say that in general, putting up fiction and poetry on a blog meant to be about writing tips is not advisable.

Samar – Drafts and drafts and drafts. The nice bit is that no one ever judges the drafts, just the final performance.

John – Equivocation. Cannot recommend it highly enough.

Kaushik – It is a little tricky, and it does help to have peers who can judge you. Often your readers aren’t quite what you need, because they’ll only judge once you’ve finally decided something is “finished”, and you really want someone to judge while you’re still in rehearsals.

GDG – Everything does get easier, but that also can mean you aspire to higher things. I’m sure those actors are capable of doing a scene very well, enjoyably well, on the first pass because they have practiced so long and become so good at what they do. It’s persistence that gets you to genius.

Stacey – I’m thinking of playwrighting, actually. We’ll see if I can get a handful of actors to read what I write.

Wendi – The audience is the ultimate, of course, but those peers are so essential. Helping each other find what’s there and what’s not there yet, but should be.

Bea – Thanks! Congratulations on your own personal perseverance!

Patrick – That’s very true, putting in the effort is half the battle. Getting that extra little edge . . . that’s a hard thing to remember sometimes, especially when what you’ve achieved seems to satisfy.

Bamboo – Except writing very rarely causes massive bruising. Unless you’re REALLY hardcore.

Jenny – There you are!

Alex – That’s a hard thing to do. Good luck to you! I’ve read about other writers who did things like write each draft out longhand, or Don Delillo, who apparently writes each sentence about ten times before moving on to the next. Crazy man. Brilliant. But crazy. And persevering.

Jonathan – Thanks very much. Glad you enjoyed!

Rhodester – Anthony Heald, Richard Elmore, Jonathan Haugen, John Tufts, Gregory Linington, and Christine Albright. Stunning cast.

Online Printing – It does make you appreciate it more, true. It also makes other people appreciate you, which I think as artists is what we’re all after, after all.

..oh yeah. Final drafts and all of that. Right on.

Thank you

“It was the work of the quiet mountains, this torrent of purity at my feet” Jack Kerouac
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