Acknowledging the dip, just how hard that middle or near end part of a creative project, can really you help you move through it
Somehow starting new creative projects or even new creative pursuits, it's so easy to start sometimes to go. ’Oh, this is the best idea ever. I'm going to make this and this and this’, and then about a week later, or a month later, or even, maybe a year later, you are like, why did I start this?
And when you're in the middle of that kind of crazy, middle dip section, and somehow though, your energy increases again, as you power towards the end.
I just reread Seth Godin who has a little book, The Dip, which is well worth a a gander if you've never read it. He talks about the dip, in terms of only pick projects, you know are worth really powering to the end because there will be a dip. There's always that initial enthusiasm and it's the hard part in the middle. Certainly for me getting to the end and through the dip is often... Well, the only reason I sometimes do get to the end of a project is because I have deadlines that are put in place often external ones like,’ oh, there's a theatre waiting and my show has to turn up.
I do know, I'm certainly not the only one who's done that. Willy Russell, the brilliant playwright, who wrote many amazing things, including Educating Rita had literally been paid to write, Educating Rita, and a few days before they were starting rehearsals. He still hadn't writtena note and he offered the money back to them and they're like, no, we've got a theater booked and we've got tickets sold for your new play, you'd better get to writing, so he sat in his room surrounded by books and out popped that brilliant brilliant play, which of course, then became a film Educating Rita.
I actually went to a talk of his on this and I was like, ’oh I'm not alone’. Well, at least people are much much more experienced and better than me, because he's such a great playwright, you know, this is not only me going, why did I start this?
So this is this week's podcast about if you are in the middle or towards the end of the project
somehow accepting that there is going to be a dip is is kind of helpful. I know I'm going to struggle at some point. I know there will be a place where I go- the arcs, too difficult to find. I can't work out what I'm doing. I can't find the time. All the reasons, you know, it's a bigger project than I envisaged.
Seth Godin does make the good point that make sure you really knowwhat you're starting because you need to power to the end.
I remember when I was doing my Singing Psychic character of finally developing it to the first
full one hour show. I was in a workshop designed deliberately so I had to turn up with some new work every week. And at that point, during a improv game the character of my Queen Of The F*cking World show. popped up, but I knew enough to say to her’ love, you're going to have to wait’
I had waited certainly long enough to get The Singing Psychic sorted
We really can't run more than one project at a time. I mean, you end up having to sometimes, if you're freelance with different projects for work. But in terms of your personal work, I think is very difficult.
I think you have to go in do one project as far as you can take it.
Then, breathe then, pick up the next one, then breathe, go back.
So whatever you're doing, just have some patience with yourself. If you're in the middle of a dip.
Just know, it's part of the process and you've just got to find ways, whether you are seducing yourself with chocolate or give yourself the carrot and stick at the end of the day of ‘ I’ll watch some TV after I've done my work for this’,
So wherever you are in your dip of your project, just know you're not alone but know it's part and parcel of the process and keep powering through.
So this was my podcast for this week.
’Love your creativity and make money’.
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Clip of my Londontown track - Andrew Hyde’s remix at the beginning and end
Aims of this podcast - Love Your Creativity & Make Money
This podcast is about being a working creative from thoughts on marketing, budget to what techniques we can all use to get the work done and out there, no matter where you work full time as an actor, a choreographer or have a yearning to paint more over the weekends.
About me, Marysia Trembecka
I am at heart a storyteller and this has translated from the initial creation of work to being a performer, including film and theatre acting, writing and performing international touring comedy shows to MCing.
Highlights include sell-out Adelaide and Edinburgh Fringe shows, singing at the Royal Festival Hall in 23 different languages, as well as doing TEDx talks and corporate gigs, such as the Brit Awards Afterparty at the 02 as my ‘The Singing Psychic’ bio queen character.
My ‘THE SINGING PSYCHIC’ who ‘reads the songs in your heart’ also has a GAME SHOW version, and was a finalist in Best Show, Funny Women in 2016, and I have toured internationally since then.
I have also produced five webseries as the character including my 23 episode SONGS OF BREXIT webseries I made for the June 2016 EU Referendum, on the pros and cons of the EU, I started the web series singing The Clash’s ‘Should I Stay Or Should I Go Now’. It was very wll received due to the blend of education and entertainment, and I ended up on London Live and even a BBC2 Live Debate on the National Living Wage amongst other press of the back of that.
I also was awarded Arts Council funding for research on a solo show on how we are all judged by our sexuality, so as part of that, I interviewed people on the cutting edge of sexual politics. From this I then created another character ‘Queen Of The F*cking World’ which has also toured internationally from Glasgow WOFF film festival in the female perspective strand to sell-out London, Edinburgh and Adelaide runs. I sing and play the bass guitar and guitar in this show.
My film acting credits can be found on IMDB and indeed my projects are on my media gallery
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