The Nature of Procrastination is this: it's difficult for me to know when I am procrastinating and when I am percolating. I've been restless and irritable, and flit--without doing any real work-- from one Les Mis task to the next. This either means that I am fomenting and putting things together in my head--under the surface, so to speak...OR, it means I have to stop drinking coffee and put the damn lego people on the set model to get it blocked.
Here is the real deep dark secret of my procrastination.... I hate working out blocking. It's tedious. It requires that I focus spatially rather than verbally. It makes my brain tired, and makes me feel uncertain--"Is it really going to work?" Lots of questions and minutia come up about traffic patterns, exits, entrances and other dry details. It's a multi-step process that requires that I come back to it over and over again--NOT a one and done. It's frankly just a lot of work. I always try to create a framework before I even have actors, then try it on them to see if it can work, or even be improved. I like the give and take when actors have ideas...but I also know that given the amount of hours required for music and choreo--I will save all of us a lot of time if I am over-prepared with pre-blocking...
...which brings me back to my whiny soliloquy about procrastination. (sigh) Well, I'm hearing this loud and clear--definitely procrastination. I just need to dive in and start. Isn't there a quote about that? The longest journey begins with the first step...something like that. And what a coincidence! I have a three hour chunk of time after my first appointment and before my Rats rehearsal!
You know where I'm headed!
To the Barricades! (the Lego ones!)
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