I've always been a firm believer that everything happens for a reason. Whether it's relationships, work, or really anything else in your life, if something big happens, it probably means something.
I recently had a little bit of an internal crisis where I realized I wasn't progressing the way I wanted to be as an artist. That's why I started reading The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron (which, by the way, I highly recommend for unclogging your creative self). And the book/course helped me out a lot! Just a few chapters in I already started feeling better about my creativity and my ability to re-develop my writing, invigorate my acting, and get some things off the ground. And this all came from finally reading a book that multiple people had told me to read.
My internal crisis didn't end though. I was still worried that I wasn't doing enough to further my career as an actor. And then I emailed my college acting professor. Just on a whim, asking if he knew any acting teachers in the New York area.
It turns out he did. And I've started taking an awesome acting class with an awesome teacher and actor in his own right, Arian Moayed. I'm so thrilled to get the ball rolling and keep improving my craft, developing my instrument, honing my skill... All of those phrases that mean "don't be fucking stagnant and always be doing the thing you love and want to do for the rest of your life." So I'm starting on some scene study with a very talented partner in the coming weeks.
That's all great. And I'm feeling much more successful and fulfilled in a lot of other ways too. I'm still progressing on my plans to produce a pilot season of three plays by the end of 2016. I'm reaching out to another former professor next week to talk about voiceover work. I'm going on more auditions so that I have something to do once Cat On a Hot Tin Roof closes.
And...I started writing again.
The smallest things can make such a big difference.