Songs For The Struggling Artist

The café where I came up with the idea is long gone. I think it’s three to four businesses ago in that spot now. But the project that was born there took me through eight to nine years. It started in that café out of a need to goose my creative practice. I was finding my writing process to be a little less smooth than I liked. When I turned on the faucet, the creativity didn’t always flow the way it used to. I felt I needed a structure within my daily practice that might drop me in to a better state of flow. Hamlet came to me because – at the time – I was working toward playing the role. I had a goal of getting back to acting and Hamlet was the top of that mountain. I thought if I wrote in response to Hamlet, I’d tackle two goals at once. I could prepare to play Hamlet while goosing my writing practice. To read more of The Hamlet Project - 'Tis a Knavish Piece of Work visit the Songs for the Struggling Artist blog. This is Episode 160. Song: Good Night Uncle Vanya by Emily Rainbow Davis Image via New York Pub