Taking A Chance Today
No Plan. Just Jumping.
I’m writing and publishing now without any agonizing (well, maybe a little agonizing) or editing so if this isn’t great, oh, well. I’m not apologizing.
Because agonizing, editing, or apologizing are not on the agenda today.
About a month ago, I took a leap of faith and wrote a short skit for my chorus to potentially perform next year. It was the first time I’d ever tried anything like it and I thought, what the hell? My director is the only one who’s going to see it and if she doesn’t like it, it’s totally fine. I wasn’t the only one who sent an idea and I was on board with whatever she decided.
A couple of weeks ago, everyone who had submitted ideas, all seven of us, put them out for chorus members to choose which one they wanted to work on. I was kind of surprised but figured, okay, I guess. 🤷🏻♀️ Now even more people were seeing this work I was attempting for the first time in my life. No anxiety or anything. 😳
Over the last two weeks, we’ve been sharing a Google doc and emailing and coming up with ideas for dialogue and songs.
This idea now looks completely different from the one I created last month.
It’s way better.
It has input from about eight different people, all smart & funny with smart & funny ideas.
Tonight, we’ll get to present it to the entire chorus together. I’m incredibly excited and a little terrified. But mostly excited.
And I’m putting this out in the world now before we find out if ours is the one that will get picked or not. Because it doesn’t matter if it does or doesn’t.
The only thing that matters is I did the thing and then I let it go into the world for other people to take and shape and create and now more people will see OUR thing.
Good or bad or loved or hated or none of the above, I’m proud of what we created together.
Thanks for reading. 😊
P.S. - Yes, Andee, I know you’re right. People are the accelerant. 💖
And it was Great!
It always seems like I read the perfect article any time I'm in a dilemma. Reading your leap of faith is encouraging me to take mine even though I'm a bundle of nerves right now. Thank you for sharing and I might take the first step to publishing a book!