It’s a gift when you tell someone ‘I’ll take care of it’.
There are two parts that make it magical…
-actually taking care of it
-after you’ve taken care of it…not dragging them through all dramatic details and hurdles you had to overcome in order to take care of it. Their unknowing is part of the gift to them.
Of the story.
Sometimes a character or a situation has had its story arc and needs to come to a close…to be written out of the show. Yeah the writers could keep it around, draw it out a little longer…after all, the character is familiar and the situation is something everyone is accustomed to.
It might hurt, but it’s time.
Michael Scott on The Office
And of course the same goes for us. We all have some story arcs that have been hanging around too long, and maybe a few characters too. We’re free to write them out of our story.
Sometimes an actor does such a good job with a small roll that the writers can’t help but make it a reoccurring role. Or even a feature.
Saul on Breaking Bad
Ben on Lost
Toby on The Office
The writers weren’t planning on making these roles full time roles but after seeing the actors’ brilliance and energy, they had to keep writing them into the story.
And we have the same choice. The stuff that we weren’t planning on being the main thing suddenly has a spark…and it’s up to us if we want to write more of that spark into our story.
How easy should it be to be a professional, full time musician or artist?
Because it’s never been easy.
With each new wave of technology there’s been a subtle, hopeful undercurrent that THIS ONE is finally going to make it easy.
And on the other side, with each new wave of technology there’s the doomsday camp that thinks THIS ONE is going to make it way too difficult to be an artist.
It should be just hard enough so that anyone who is deterred by how hard it is feels right for changing course…and anyone who stays with it and sees it through knows full well they survived a hurricane.