Story Weekend: Acting (and a Giveaway of a Large Print Edition of Necessary Lies)
As a kid, I always wanted to be an actress. My friend Joyce and I would practice a scene from the movie The Bells of St Mary’s, in which the priest (Bing Crosby) tells the nun (Ingrid Bergman) that she has leukemia, and she cries (with relief, because of the storyline). Joyce and I would sob, certain we’d be great actresses one day. As it turned out, I was way too shy, soft-voiced, and anxious to ever make it on stage even in grade school, but that didn’t stop me from dreaming. (note: If you’ve read my novel Secret Lives, the scene I describe above may be familiar to you, since it inspired the same behavior in my character Eden in that novel. Eden, though, did indeed go on to be a star).
So how about you? Everyone has an acting story, I’m sure of it. What’s yours? (By the way, I just received a couple of large print editions of Necessary Lies and will randomly choose one commenter to receive one of them!)
If you’re new to Story Weekend, here’s how it works: I pick a theme and you share something from your life that relates to that theme, however you interpret it. Thanks to all of you who’ve been contributing. As always, there are a few “rules”:
▪ The story must be true
▪ Try to keep it under 100 words. Embrace the challenge! That’s about six or seven lines in the comment form. I want others to read your story, and most people tend to skip if it’s too long. I know how tough it is to “write tight” but I hope you’ll accept this as a challenge. Happy writing!
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Ever since I can remember I've always wanted to be a teacher. When I was about 8 I asked for a chalkboard for Christmas and once I got that thing I constantly had to play teacher with my friends. I played teacher almost every day and would rarely let my friends be the teacher they had to play student. (A little bossy right!?) Lol anyway 18 years later I'm a teacher and love it! :-)
In the fifth grade, I won the part of Maria in The Sound of Music. We practiced for several weeks and I had my lines and songs down and was confident that I would rock it. However, being the shy introvert that I am, it never crossed my mind that I would be on a stage and that adults would be watching me....remember, I was 10! Needless to say, I got myself so worked up during our first stage practice that I would vomit every time I tried to walk on the stage. I missed three days of school and my understudy ended up doing all three shows. The beginning and end if my acting career.
As a 3rd grader, I delievered the role of Gnome #3 in the school play. Standing on the risers in our cafeteria, I wore a red cap and performed my lines loud and clear after having practiced speaking them into a very old-school cassette recorder with an attached microphone. God, how I hated the sound of my voice. Are we ever happy with the sound of our voice--be it writer, or actress? After all, we're all stepping into character.
