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Episode 111B – Armin Shimerman – Choosing to Write
Overview
Armin has vast experience as an actor, but enjoys a playhouse also. He has studied Shakespeare and teaches students about Shakespeare. And yet, he had the desire to write.
We have a great discussion about the different activities he does along with writing and why he chose write in the first place. Authors, there is a lot of great information that you really should listen to.
YouTube
https://youtu.be/NsnCgT239Lc
Transcript
[00:00:49] Stephen: Hey. All right. Let's talk a bit about author stuff the second half, instead of just books. Still book. So your writing process, what do you [00:01:00] use to write? Do you paper, pencil? Do you use word? What do you like to
[00:01:04] Armin: use? I use my computer. I have a pro I have a Mac, so I started off with word when I started writing the novels.
And by the way, I've been writing this particular series for about 20 years. Yeah. But with my newer computer, my new Mac it's on page it's. So it's always done on a computer. I am. A go that people who write with pencil and paper, because that's really hard to switch things around if you want, oh, wait, that shouldn't happen until later.
Or I need this to happened at the end to happen earlier. It's so easy to cut and paste with a computer, but you can't do with pencil and paper. And, uh, and I like to erase. I like to go, nah, that's not any good cut. Cut it all out. So it's just easier to do that with a computer than it is with paper and.
Yes.
[00:01:50] Stephen: And I'm a computer database guy. So I discovered Scrivener, which fit my brain perfectly. And every time I wanna make major changes, I can [00:02:00] save a snapshot. So if I go, you know what, that sounded better with this. I got all. So yeah, I love it. Wasn't for computers. I probably wouldn't have written cause my handwriting's horrible.
[00:02:10] Armin: Yeah, mine too. I, when I go back and read things, I've written in my own hand, I can't read them. I don't, what did I say here? Terrible.
[00:02:19] Stephen: All right. And so before we started, we were talking a bit about various other things. And so there's multiple great things that we could discuss and we could probably be on for a lot longer than either of us have the time for, so let me ask first, you do a voiceover, you do acting you've written, they're all based around story.
Sorry, what were you gonna. I
[00:02:43] Armin: was gonna say, don't forget the teaching, but yes. And ended
[00:02:46] Stephen: yes. Ended. Yes. They're all creative. And they're based around the story. What do you find different when working with each of those? But we talked about this a bit before, but your creativity as an actor, [00:03:00] compared to your creativity as an author, what are some of the differences in both
[00:03:05] Armin: of those?
As I said before, One is a rather lonely process. That's the writing and you're sparking yourself, or you're inspiring yourself off of thoughts that you have or things that you see in front of you on the screen that you've written. And so that is a very lonely process. Acting is, as I said before, a communal process, and you're working off of different people.
There are two philosophies about acting in America. One is called the actor studio. Everybody's familiar with that. And the other one is called the neighborhood play. The actor studio.
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Overview
Armin has vast experience as an actor, but enjoys a playhouse also. He has studied Shakespeare and teaches students about Shakespeare. And yet, he had the desire to write.
We have a great discussion about the different activities he does along with writing and why he chose write in the first place. Authors, there is a lot of great information that you really should listen to.
YouTube
https://youtu.be/NsnCgT239Lc
Transcript
[00:00:49] Stephen: Hey. All right. Let's talk a bit about author stuff the second half, instead of just books. Still book. So your writing process, what do you [00:01:00] use to write? Do you paper, pencil? Do you use word? What do you like to
[00:01:04] Armin: use? I use my computer. I have a pro I have a Mac, so I started off with word when I started writing the novels.
And by the way, I've been writing this particular series for about 20 years. Yeah. But with my newer computer, my new Mac it's on page it's. So it's always done on a computer. I am. A go that people who write with pencil and paper, because that's really hard to switch things around if you want, oh, wait, that shouldn't happen until later.
Or I need this to happened at the end to happen earlier. It's so easy to cut and paste with a computer, but you can't do with pencil and paper. And, uh, and I like to erase. I like to go, nah, that's not any good cut. Cut it all out. So it's just easier to do that with a computer than it is with paper and.
Yes.
[00:01:50] Stephen: And I'm a computer database guy. So I discovered Scrivener, which fit my brain perfectly. And every time I wanna make major changes, I can [00:02:00] save a snapshot. So if I go, you know what, that sounded better with this. I got all. So yeah, I love it. Wasn't for computers. I probably wouldn't have written cause my handwriting's horrible.
[00:02:10] Armin: Yeah, mine too. I, when I go back and read things, I've written in my own hand, I can't read them. I don't, what did I say here? Terrible.
[00:02:19] Stephen: All right. And so before we started, we were talking a bit about various other things. And so there's multiple great things that we could discuss and we could probably be on for a lot longer than either of us have the time for, so let me ask first, you do a voiceover, you do acting you've written, they're all based around story.
Sorry, what were you gonna. I
[00:02:43] Armin: was gonna say, don't forget the teaching, but yes. And ended
[00:02:46] Stephen: yes. Ended. Yes. They're all creative. And they're based around the story. What do you find different when working with each of those? But we talked about this a bit before, but your creativity as an actor, [00:03:00] compared to your creativity as an author, what are some of the differences in both
[00:03:05] Armin: of those?
As I said before, One is a rather lonely process. That's the writing and you're sparking yourself, or you're inspiring yourself off of thoughts that you have or things that you see in front of you on the screen that you've written. And so that is a very lonely process. Acting is, as I said before, a communal process, and you're working off of different people.
There are two philosophies about acting in America. One is called the actor studio. Everybody's familiar with that. And the other one is called the neighborhood play. The actor studio.