Tumbled Words

rock the world, as do supportive wives! For that matter, supportive mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters, friends and lovers, significant others, partners, bloggers and online group co’s, teachers, sons and daughters, neighbors and co-workers, and. . . every person I have left out purely in a hurry to have tea.

Leon rushed out yesterday (in spite of my ‘mood’) to buy a cheap printer to replace my suddenly obstinate one so I could print 25,000 words to figure out what the heck I was doing. I had so many files started and stopped due to computer issues and then my own failing to type in the same copy that I was wavering on giving up or starting over. Mission accomplished, a 39 dollar laser printer later (after rebate) an entire evening of comparing files and deleting. I am ready to write. He encouraged me to write all day(s) until it is done as he labors over cleaning out the garage and shop for the next two days –and he said it with a smile and a sincere voice, offered shoulder massage, tea — Yes, I know he is an actor. . . but his overlooking my mood and running out after a long day, did more for my mood than my finally wading through the mess. (Well, maybe it was almost a tie.)

So, all of you out there who don’t feel like supporting your partner, etc., in their dream, try it, perhaps, even if for a minute or two at first. You may not understand just how important that support is until you need or want to be surrounded by it some day. And for you who need the support today. . . perhaps ask for it in a different way than usual. . . you may just be surprised.
Live your dream y’all — as much as you can for now.

Speaking of support — thanks, Chris, for the prompt for this entry. . .

NaNoWriMo — 25,000 words, finally. It is not that the words don’t pour out. . . it is finding time to write them — having a computer that is too short on memory — and writing when I am so tired that I forget to save 300 plus words and then reopen another chapter to work on, so I can’t recapture them. So, tonight I posted those I hadn’t lost and my total was just TWO short of the halfway point. It took me five minutes to realize I only had to type two more to be halfway. Of course, I went back and added two words.

Our son and his wife are going home tomorrow, so nothing will stop me from getting the next 25,000 written in the next 4 days and Leon is most encouraging — and probably glad for the quiet that will ensue as I type. If he weren’t so supportive I would rent a clacking typewriter every November!

During my years as an actor there has always been that sense of accomplishment. Unfortunately it has been over six years since my last journey on the boards and I miss it a lot.
I am hoping that after we, that is Marcia and I, have finished remodeling the home we are in and have sold it, I will be able to get back to the one thing, other than Marcia, that I love the most — “ACTING”.

From the audition preparation (my insurance at having a good shot at being cast in the role I see myself in) all the way through to the closing cast party, the process gives me something that other people can’t understand. I take that back, there are those who run marathons, write books, poetry, or raise a family that understand. It’s those people that have not discovered that thing that completes them that I feel sorry for, and wish that I could help them find it.

And so I am currently acting at living a life without acting. . .