Writing is something I've always done. Ever since I was little I would would have notebooks full of silly short stories, or ten minute plays. I have probably started around twenty novels in my life, all of which never made it past chapter four. Writing is one of my most treasured hobbies. But recently, I feel the Spirit tugging me to make my writing more of an expanded hobby. Meaning that I don't just write for myself anymore....
Over the last few months, I have begun to share my writing with others via the internet as well as asking for feed back among friends. Before this, I had never really shown anyone my work, save for my mother of course, but that doesn't really count as showing it to her as much as her sneaking it off our home computer to read it without me knowing.
I am now in the midst of producing my first play at Carnegie Mellon University's Playground, a festival of student works. This experience, although it has only lasted two days so far, has informed my writing process immensely. I have a wonderful team of actors and designers working on the show with me and I have just marveled at how the Lord has made us all so specifically and so differently, and how each individual mind works in its own incredible, individual way. One person notices one thing because of the way God wired them, but then another person notices something completely different. It's amazing to me. And the play has only gotten better because of their presence in the creative process. From simply doing a first read of the play and talking about it with the team, the world of the play has gotten more specific, the characters have more depth, I have learned where I have made mistakes, and what my pitfalls are as a writer. It's has truly been a humbling and educational experience.
As a creator, no matter what the vocation or media, there is nothing more valuable then the observations and feedback of a few people whom you really trust.
-jon
I am now in the midst of producing my first play at Carnegie Mellon University's Playground, a festival of student works. This experience, although it has only lasted two days so far, has informed my writing process immensely. I have a wonderful team of actors and designers working on the show with me and I have just marveled at how the Lord has made us all so specifically and so differently, and how each individual mind works in its own incredible, individual way. One person notices one thing because of the way God wired them, but then another person notices something completely different. It's amazing to me. And the play has only gotten better because of their presence in the creative process. From simply doing a first read of the play and talking about it with the team, the world of the play has gotten more specific, the characters have more depth, I have learned where I have made mistakes, and what my pitfalls are as a writer. It's has truly been a humbling and educational experience.
As a creator, no matter what the vocation or media, there is nothing more valuable then the observations and feedback of a few people whom you really trust.
-jon
