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04Jun08
- Today I feel like: Lauren Graham, because I’ve been sassy all day in a fast talking i-find-myself-adorable-and-you-should-too sort of way.
I think I’ve been watching too much Gilmore Girls.
As you may have noticed, there is a sort of trend here. When I start into something, I get completely immersed and become almost dissolved (is that the word i want?) into whatever it is. I watch Gilmore Girls and I talk fast. I watch star wars and I become dorkier and altogether more awesome. I read Phillipa Gregory and I become slightly slutty and much more courtly. Okay, so that last one is kind of silly, but her novels do have an effect on me I swear.
I am sort of a copy-cat, or a mimic. You know, it could be the start of a disease of sorts. I was watching an episode of ‘House’ on which a guy took on the mood and personality of whoever he was talking to and it turned out that it was because something was wrong in his brain. hmmmm. Maybe my condition will worsen.
In the meantime, I’m trying to deal with it. Sometimes its a good thing. I read or see a lot of shakespeare and all of a sudden I’m pulling original sonnets out of my- i mean right out of the air. However, it also sometimes affects me badly. Like when I read Harry Potter five and get really moody and angry because no one can understand how it feels to be me and VOLDEMORTS BACK YOU IDIOTS! Or when I start some sort of project and get diverted by something else entirely. Or when I try to write and find I can only use the voice of whoever I was most recently immersed in.
Is it possible for someone like me to find my own voice I wonder? Or should I just try to always read and watch nice and smart things so that I can better function?
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Is your guest Cheryl? Because I’m wicked jealous.
We’re always influenced by those around us, and you probably moreso, as an actress, a person intrigued by differences, by trying different characters on for size. And what’s important to remember is that when you assume these roles, they aren’t photocopies of originals – you add your own personality to the mix, even if ever so slightly, you alter the pattern to sew yourself a new pair of clothes. My writing reflects everything I’ve read and seen, dipping into Hemingway, swimming through McGahern, emerging out of Guernica and the news at 11 and beautiful designer homes on HGTV, but at the end of the day, my writing is still mine. I still have a voice – it is just in conversation with everything else.
So consider yourself in conversation.