Comments on: A Different Kind of Stage Fright http://zahnster.com/programming-gen/a-different-kind-of-stage-fright my name's jade. i'm a child of the internet. Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:30:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Rick Leider http://zahnster.com/programming-gen/a-different-kind-of-stage-fright/comment-page-1#comment-13 Rick Leider Tue, 31 Jul 2007 04:25:20 +0000 http://zahnster.com/?p=28#comment-13 It's a general creative persons nightmare. Whether it's a web site or artwork or a manuscript, film or screenplay, no matter how much mentoring you have or how long you worked on it from all angles, you only have one or both of two goals to sweat - Does the guy who pays for it like it ( will it sell ) and do you like it, as you want it, without compromises? This is followed by the month/year/decade-later syndrome when you realise how you could have made it better. It comes with talent. That's why we have revivals with updates, director's cuts and DVD's with deleted stuff on the second disk. Tennessee William's once told me at one of out semi-monthly lunches that he wanted to make lots of changes to several of his plays and the producer's ( their money ) mixed them. I still do re-writes of the high school 'Sing' shows I did 40 years ago for practice. Relax - you're on the way to the top. Don't get an ulcer on the way. It’s a general creative persons nightmare. Whether it’s a web site or artwork or a manuscript, film or screenplay, no matter how much mentoring you have or how long you worked on it from all angles, you only have one or both of two goals to sweat – Does the guy who pays for it like it ( will it sell ) and do you like it, as you want it, without compromises?

This is followed by the month/year/decade-later syndrome when you realise how you could have made it better. It comes with talent. That’s why we have revivals with updates, director’s cuts and DVD’s with deleted stuff on the second disk.

Tennessee William’s once told me at one of out semi-monthly lunches that he wanted to make lots of changes to several of his plays and the producer’s ( their money ) mixed them.

I still do re-writes of the high school ‘Sing’ shows I did 40 years ago for practice. Relax – you’re on the way to the top. Don’t get an ulcer on the way.

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