Follow the script

 

Life is just a movie and you are the star. Unfortunately, there are no script writers, so you have to write your own. It is sort of a play-as-you-go game.

Have you ever been in a play?  There are scripts for each actor for they are only voice to the words written by someone else. If there are no scripts, the actors just stand there. Imagine a soap opera with no scripts. The actors may have played the role of a character for years but the camera wouldn’t know who was going to speak next to get the right angle and lighting. The microphones would pick up voices speaking over each other (as we do in conversations) and when are the breaks for the commercials?

I was never a lead role in a play, but even as an extra I sat through the constant rehearsals until I knew every word of the scripts. The scriptwriter must remember what the actor must memorize and if writing a long soliloquy, words might be forgotten. Without a cue card, someone off stage will have to prompt to keep the play going.

So, are you following your script?

Have you handed out copies for the audience to follow (instead of sub-titles)?  Then they can decide if a conversation is worth having and plan for a response.

Your daily script might be determined by the weather or location or association with others. Your script seems repetitive but it is always changing. Yesterday at the Tummy Temple I spoke with a fine dressed gentleman about riding a bike and today I talked to Kermit about the fine weather. Plus, I got a big grin from a cutie pie extra.

There are no rewrites to your script for you are writing it as you go. If there was you could go back to page 379 and change what you said in 1968, If that happened, history and time and space would change. We can’t have that.

So, turn the page and let’s continue with this adventure.

Ready camera two and action!