Jason, I appreciate your reminder that there's no one way to tell your story. Periodically, I remind my clients that your story should never sound exactly the same way with each telling. As you get more comfortable with the flow, you gain more insights into the characters. You also have a different perspective on the events, which means you'll have a different emotional reaction.
Your story should sound a little different each time you share it because it's getting deeper deeper into your bones, into your heart and into your soul
You see this even in theatre, even when everything is scripted and staged and supposed to the "same" each night. It's impossible for the show NOT to evolve, even as it maintains its precision. Part of that is each audience every night teaching you something different. Part of that--as you point out--is simply you getting deeper and deeper into character, becoming more intimate with the emotional throughlines of the story. The number of times I've had (or see in other actors) that EPIPHANY moment during the final dang WEEK of a run... "how did I not see THIS before???" :)
Mr. Rogers sang the slowest theme song every day he produced his children’s show on PBS. And by the third time they watched his “slow show”every kid could sing along with him and knew the words as well as the tune. A million kid versions of “Won’t You Be My Neighbor!” Sometimes Mr. Rogers stopped singing, and then spoke between phrases! Lovely anticipation, for every child watching!
Jason, I appreciate your reminder that there's no one way to tell your story. Periodically, I remind my clients that your story should never sound exactly the same way with each telling. As you get more comfortable with the flow, you gain more insights into the characters. You also have a different perspective on the events, which means you'll have a different emotional reaction.
Your story should sound a little different each time you share it because it's getting deeper deeper into your bones, into your heart and into your soul
You see this even in theatre, even when everything is scripted and staged and supposed to the "same" each night. It's impossible for the show NOT to evolve, even as it maintains its precision. Part of that is each audience every night teaching you something different. Part of that--as you point out--is simply you getting deeper and deeper into character, becoming more intimate with the emotional throughlines of the story. The number of times I've had (or see in other actors) that EPIPHANY moment during the final dang WEEK of a run... "how did I not see THIS before???" :)
Mr. Rogers sang the slowest theme song every day he produced his children’s show on PBS. And by the third time they watched his “slow show”every kid could sing along with him and knew the words as well as the tune. A million kid versions of “Won’t You Be My Neighbor!” Sometimes Mr. Rogers stopped singing, and then spoke between phrases! Lovely anticipation, for every child watching!