Slow and Steady

The gathering and discussion of images and points of inspiration continues in its fractured way as everyone else is currently preoccupied with other projects. Group emails filled with video links, photos, and/or staging ideas is the order these early days. I have been having regular meetings with Diana, talking through sections of the script and setting the foundation for everything that will follow.

I've also talked to several people about memorizing, given the length of this piece (at about 9200 words long, it's the most I've ever had to memorize). I have been given several helpful suggestions only to discover that my own powerful method (walking around my bedroom with the script in hand reading and muttering to myself, then collapsing on the bed and staring at the ceiling and spitting out the text) works as well as anything else. Victory me!

As we inch closer to the end of the March, the intensity grows; these slow and steady days of contemplation and careful planning will soon give way to a chaotic descent into the madness of the creative fugue. There is a roller coaster ahead, navigating and understanding the twists and turns of the bones and blood of the thing, which (I suppose) is best not anticipated but experienced in the moment.

Onward!