I’m going to be restarting my Produce Yourself series over here on the official site. Previously, I had been publishing it on another blog that I write for, but I want to bring it home because it’s going to be a lot of what I’m talking about over the next few months.
For an overview, the gist of Produce Yourself is simply that I want to help you along every step of self-producing. I believe in the idea that it’s pointless to wait for opportunities to fall into your lap…if you want something, create it for yourself. Of course, that’s easier said than done, which is why I’m going to talk about everything from venue booking to marketing to just creating a viable concept for a show. The whole spectrum of creation from beginning to end is our fodder, and I WILL be jumping all over the place.
For the time being, I recommend catching yourself up on the first two installments, linked below. They were originally written to go in a much more linear fashion, and I’m ditching that aspect of it, but I’m really big into the idea of narrative evolution, best-worst ideas and sabotaging your work, so these are good primers to some concepts I’m going to explore further down the road.