Put your best face forward
Posted 12-31-2016 at 09:34 AM by TamaraSavannah
In Dr. Who, "Destiny of the Daleks", Romana II comments about being able to stop her hearts and a space engineer asks, "Hearts? How many do you have?".
Romana answers, "Two! One for everyday, one for best.". I think I was influenced to take it further than that.
Okay, I was going to comment on having this or that personalty I can activate at will. It is something I learned to do in acting, maybe after in Improvisation when one of my classmates found out I was a writer, too! "Can you imagine all the different people in that head that she could become on suggestion?".
A thing or two I try to do in writing is not to have my characters be reflections of each other....nor of me.
So, between writing and acting and dancing, I have several different personalties I can become. Dancing, there's an interesting one, to shift from one to another, based on how each one interacts with the audience. Whether it is lost in the dance (and the audience "isn't" there) or interacting with each one out there or seeing them as what makes me great (haven't quite sorted that personalty out yet).
Some personalties I can activate in seconds....and they can just as easily get dashed in a second. Reality re enters and I'm me again. Others take a while to bring into action, like close to an hour. Then, I might approach a task or a part, thinking to use one person for it and that one "never turns on" but instead it is a different person that moves in, takes on the role.
The other thing is that in my acting, I often activate a personalty to play the role I am assigned. So I am being someone else who I want to be and that one is playing the role....with whatever motives and desires they may have. For example, playing a WWI spy who is doing a play on the stage in front of a King. The spy must get close to the King, by means of their performance, so to speak to the King in his dialect to convince him to turn against the enemies of the spy's country.
Approaching my acting this way makes it much more motivating .... and fun!...to make my performance the best I can be.
So why are they personalties and not just moods. Because viewpoints change upon activation. Add to it that there is often an entire world of beliefs to go with it, at least as big as needed for the part. Both of those really get interesting when I approach something as an animal in human form.
As things go, I think I just keep creating personalties for this or that task. Now, some are "adept" at being able to be used for multiple situations, so I guess it just depends.
One thing about the ranch and the cowgirl personalty that I came across recently was.....can a cowgirl be a witch? I mean, that is part how I see my ranch, my forest, in that in a view, it is like Little Red Riding Hood taking over her grandmother's house.
I think the answer is, "Of course, she can!".....but I need to fine tune some things to work that one out.
Romana answers, "Two! One for everyday, one for best.". I think I was influenced to take it further than that.
Okay, I was going to comment on having this or that personalty I can activate at will. It is something I learned to do in acting, maybe after in Improvisation when one of my classmates found out I was a writer, too! "Can you imagine all the different people in that head that she could become on suggestion?".
A thing or two I try to do in writing is not to have my characters be reflections of each other....nor of me.
So, between writing and acting and dancing, I have several different personalties I can become. Dancing, there's an interesting one, to shift from one to another, based on how each one interacts with the audience. Whether it is lost in the dance (and the audience "isn't" there) or interacting with each one out there or seeing them as what makes me great (haven't quite sorted that personalty out yet).
Some personalties I can activate in seconds....and they can just as easily get dashed in a second. Reality re enters and I'm me again. Others take a while to bring into action, like close to an hour. Then, I might approach a task or a part, thinking to use one person for it and that one "never turns on" but instead it is a different person that moves in, takes on the role.
The other thing is that in my acting, I often activate a personalty to play the role I am assigned. So I am being someone else who I want to be and that one is playing the role....with whatever motives and desires they may have. For example, playing a WWI spy who is doing a play on the stage in front of a King. The spy must get close to the King, by means of their performance, so to speak to the King in his dialect to convince him to turn against the enemies of the spy's country.
Approaching my acting this way makes it much more motivating .... and fun!...to make my performance the best I can be.
So why are they personalties and not just moods. Because viewpoints change upon activation. Add to it that there is often an entire world of beliefs to go with it, at least as big as needed for the part. Both of those really get interesting when I approach something as an animal in human form.
As things go, I think I just keep creating personalties for this or that task. Now, some are "adept" at being able to be used for multiple situations, so I guess it just depends.
One thing about the ranch and the cowgirl personalty that I came across recently was.....can a cowgirl be a witch? I mean, that is part how I see my ranch, my forest, in that in a view, it is like Little Red Riding Hood taking over her grandmother's house.
I think the answer is, "Of course, she can!".....but I need to fine tune some things to work that one out.
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A cowgirl can probably turn into a witch, but I'm not sure how a witch will fare as a cowgirl, since cowgirls have to be physically tough. Does the witch have enough magic to enhance her upper body strength? Or maybe she knows some spells that will enchant the cattle to come to her so that she doesn't need to chase them. Or maybe she can turn her cat into a border collie and let it round up the herd, but I don't think her cat will speak to her for a long time if she does that.
Interesting notion! I probably wouldn't need to change my personality to entertain myself while doing boring work. I'd be more likely to do it when I need to go be someone I'm not to accomplish a task in the real world, like when my father died and I had to deal with the Clerk of Courts. She was very nasty, so I pretended to be an even nastier paralegal (in my mind). I think it helped.Posted 12-31-2016 at 04:05 PM by Meemur
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[quote=Meemur;bt64157]A cowgirl can probably turn into a witch, but I'm not sure how a witch will fare as a cowgirl, since cowgirls have to be physically tough. Does the witch have enough magic to enhance her upper body strength? Or maybe she knows some spells that will enchant the cattle to come to her so that she doesn't need to chase them. Or maybe she can turn her cat into a border collie and let it round up the herd, but I don't think her cat will speak to her for a long time if she does that.
Interesting notion! I probably wouldn't need to change my personality to entertain myself while doing boring work. I'd be more likely to do it when I need to go be someone I'm not to accomplish a task in the real world, like when my father died and I had to deal with the Clerk of Courts. She was very nasty, so I pretended to be an even nastier paralegal (in my mind). I think it helped.[/quote]
In reverse order. When my Mom was on her last year and I had to handle the family affairs, I mimicked my life, in seconds here and there, after the young Chieftain in the book "Han Solo's Revenge". When Han first comes across him, he's a scared young man, hardly more than a youth, but when he has to deal with him on business, he is the Lord, having been trained for the job since birth. So when I needed a moment of reassurance, I pictured myself as him.
The cowgirl/witch matter is going to take some programming. I mean, a cowgirl can be a marine biologist. That's both in literature and reality, me being an example of the latter. As I think on it further, maybe so because right now, I'm reading "The Widows of Eastwick" and Alexandria (Cher's character), now lives out in Taos. Happy New Year, all! Got to go toast on Facebook.Posted 12-31-2016 at 10:57 PM by TamaraSavannah
