The Trap

It happens to the best of us artists. I'm talking about that urge to just do something, anything, to keep busy, to stay involved. Since we never know where the next gig will come from we just take on anything and everything that comes our way because if we happen to stop, to take a break, someone else will sweep in, take what should have been rightfully ours, be discovered as the next best thing and be making million dollar movies before the end of the year, all because we passed up our opportunity to audition for our local community theatre.

We also have a tendency to be a bit overdramatic :p

I'm starting to feel that crazy itch to do something else now that end of Measure for Measure is on the horizon and I have nothing, and I mean nothing, planned for after.

The hard part is I've decided that I don't want to do "just anything" anymore. No, somehow in the past year or so I've developped "standards" where I actually want to be in something "good" and "professional". This means that you will not be seeing me trying out for any Little Theatres anytime soon (not that there is anything wrong with Little Theatres, but I definitely feel I am past that stage in my professional development).

It's a good thing though that I have nothing planned. I've realized one of the reasons I kept getting involved in other people's work was so I wouldn't have to focus on doing any of my own. It's my own personal resistance and it's time I buckled down and started fighting it.

I'll just get started after Saturday, OK?