BWW Blog: Micah Young - I Got The Horse Right Here

If you rush the process, any process, your liable to miss a step or two along the way, and end up with a less than stellar product. If it takes 30 minutes to bake a cake, but you want it done in 10, it's not going to be a very good cake. Likewise trying to get results too quickly, without respecting the time of the process is putting the cart before the horse.

Perhaps it is one of the many issues in the performing arts is rushing the process. We want to impress, we want to win over our audiences, and backers with the money to fuel our passions; sometimes we step out on to the stage long before we have the repertoire fully realized or rehearsed.

The conflicting force at work in this situation, is using the excuse that the work is not ready. I need more time; lifetimes are spent not being ready. Sometimes we need to push ourselves (and others) to get out and try the material, whether it's a stand-up comic routine, or a broadway musical.

The more we work our craft, the better we are at understanding how long it will take. How long does it take to write a song, a scene, or a musical? When are we ready to share and when do we legitimately need more time?

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