Health & Fitness
Going Independently... Together (No. 2)
Two actors in LA try to make their own opportunity and share the process with the world, good or bad.
Hurry up and wait.
This is an idiom you hear a lot in acting circles. It’s a cute way to say you spend a lot of your time anxiously waiting for your next big opportunity, and then you have to pounce on it when it comes. Whether or not you find success with said opportunity, you’re still going to have to wait for the next one.
It’s a tough habit to break. You’re conditioned after 5 plus years of it, and if you’re going to do this for the long haul, you have to embrace it. Maybe it can even become a skill set. I can already feel the effects. I don’t start having football withdrawals until around May.
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The campaign for our TV pilot "Don’t Take This The Wrong Way" started on May 7. It will last 45 days, so we are about four days in. There’s 100 different ways to consider expectations, and no matter how much or how little you raise in the beginning, it’s too far away from the end to really know what to expect.
Hurry up and wait.
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Matt and I were prepared this time. We knew that initially it wasn’t about the amount contributed the first week or so, it was about getting the word out and creating a base. Have people “like” the Facebook page, track your views, read the comments, get a feel for how it’s being received.
It’s been inspiring to see what people have said about us and the project. We are fortunate to have a strong support base of family and friends, and they truly want us to succeed. There’s talk of encouragement, being proud of us, eagerness to finally see the finished version, even people from this blog who want to support local artists.
For every dollar put in, it’s another person we have made a commitment to. It’s also another person who has shown they truly believe in what we can do. The key is to keep in mind that the commitment and belief was already there.
Hurry up and wait.
As we said in the last blog post, we’re all in. We are putting everything we have into this, and we have sealed all the exit doors. When you expose yourself like that, the project becomes an extension of you. It causes you to evaluate what the success or failure of the project means about you. Of course, you define your own success.
We consider success being a finished product that we are proud of and represents the script in the best way we feel it can be. Success is finding a way to do so regardless of what is raised and how far it necessarily gets in the big bad world of Hollywood. Success is accomplishing our goal.
So what is failure? Failure is letting ourselves convert the support into pressure. It’s making this about what others consider success. It’s forgetting why we are doing this. It’s forgetting to have fun with all of this.
Hurry up and wait.
I leave this Friday. Nicole and I are taking a trip that is 10 years in the making. A final adventure before we have little Craigs and Nicoles. By the way, that is in my opinion a really creepy way to say you’re going to have kids, because all I picture is babies with our adult heads on them. Not pretty.
I am still in denial. How can I be leaving my team behind right after we started the campaign? Matt is 100% capable of running the show (if he can figure out how to log-in, love ya Matty), and the plan is already in place. It’s probably better this way, if I’m 2,000 miles away I am forced to do what I have become best at.
Hurry up and wait.
