It Is So Much Easier to Not Make Things
02/20/24 • 14 min
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It’s December. I’m back to putting on a show. I’m doing all the things you have to do to make a show happen. I’m getting a team together. I’m casting actors. I’m writing a press release. I’m crafting a marketing strategy. And at a every inflection point, I think, “Golly this is hard.” I think, “Why did I get myself into this?” And at every turn in the road, I think, “Wouldn’t it be easier to just not?” At every mile marker I feel sure I’ve made an irreversible mistake and failure is inevitable.
The fact is, it WOULD be easier to just not. It’s always easier to not do than to do. Always! (Well, almost always.) It would be nice if the arc of the universe bent toward justice but it seems more accurately to bend toward inertia. It is really quite remarkable anyone makes anything at all! I have renewed admiration for anyone who ever had an idea and then DID it. It is so much easier to have an idea and then just sit around hoping something will happen with it. That is what most people do. And the reason that is what most people do is because it is incredibly much easier.
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This is Episode 387
Song: Easy
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Emily Rainbow Davis
It’s December. I’m back to putting on a show. I’m doing all the things you have to do to make a show happen. I’m getting a team together. I’m casting actors. I’m writing a press release. I’m crafting a marketing strategy. And at a every inflection point, I think, “Golly this is hard.” I think, “Why did I get myself into this?” And at every turn in the road, I think, “Wouldn’t it be easier to just not?” At every mile marker I feel sure I’ve made an irreversible mistake and failure is inevitable.
The fact is, it WOULD be easier to just not. It’s always easier to not do than to do. Always! (Well, almost always.) It would be nice if the arc of the universe bent toward justice but it seems more accurately to bend toward inertia. It is really quite remarkable anyone makes anything at all! I have renewed admiration for anyone who ever had an idea and then DID it. It is so much easier to have an idea and then just sit around hoping something will happen with it. That is what most people do. And the reason that is what most people do is because it is incredibly much easier.
To keep reading It Is So Much Easier to Not Make Things visit the Songs for the Struggling Artist blog.
This is Episode 387
Song: Easy
Image by Nadim Merrikh via Unsplash
To support this podcast:
Give it 5 stars in Apple Podcasts. Write a nice review!
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Support me on Patreon: www.patreon.com/emilyrdavis
Or help me pay off my tickets to and from Crete on Kofi: http://ko-fi.com/emilyrainbowdavis
or PayPal me: https://www.paypal.me/strugglingartist
Join my Substack: https://emilyrainbowdavis.substack.com/
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Listen to The Dragoning here and The Defense here. You can support them via Ko-fi here: https://ko-fi.com/messengertheatrecompany
As ever, I am yours,
Emily Rainbow Davis
Previous Episode
Rebroadcast of I Am a Dragon Now. The Fear of Men Is My Food.
1 RecommendationsI'm recovering from recording some episodes of my new Audio Drama series, The Defense - so I'm rebroadcasting the inspiration for the previous Audio Drama series (The Dragoning).
You'll probably also hear some carryover into The Defense.
And I forgot to say during the intro that this post was provoked by the Kavanaugh hearings.
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An excerpt: I am nice. I am so nice. My whole life I have been told I am nice. When I received criticism, it was that I was too nice. And not just once either. Over and over and over again. “You’re too nice!” they’d say.
But that’s over. It’s over. I am a dragon now. Tell me I’m too nice again.
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It didn’t have to be this way. The arc of the universe could have bent toward justice a little sooner and I would have remained as I was. I could have stayed that person who wrote sweet plays that mostly worked out in the end – you know the kind, the ones where smart women hook up with slightly dorky temporarily clueless men and everyone’s happy. You could have had more of those plays. You could have had love songs and dream novels and light sparkling in the trees. I would have happily smiled my way through the rest of my life. I would have looked past a lot of bad behavior to have a seat at the table. But you didn’t give me a seat at the table so I brought a folding chair, as the great Shirley Chisholm advised. But now I am a dragon and every chair and the table will be burnt to the ground.
This is Re-broadcast of Episode 115
Song: Kid Fears
Image courtesy of the NYPL digital collection
To support this podcast:
Give it 5 stars in Apple Podcasts. Write a nice review!
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Listen to The Dragoning here and The Defense here. You can support them via Ko-fi here: https://ko-fi.com/messengertheatrecompany
As ever, I am yours,
Emily Rainbow Davis
Next Episode
Introducing The Defense
This is a taste of my new audio drama. You can help us out by subscribing to The Defense, giving it five stars and writing a review!
If you've listened to The Dragoning, you'll hear some familiar names and some new ones!
A live recording of an audio drama podcast about a group of women grappling with their defense, a seemingly magical power that protects them from harm. Get a glimpse behind the curtain of live podcast drama. Come see the serio-comic podcast sauce get made, four episodes at a time. TW: Women laughing. Men dying.
We’ll be performing at Jalopy in Brooklyn at 7pm on January 21, February 11, March 10th and April 14.
Tickets available for March 10th and April 14.
Don’t worry if you haven’t been to previous shows. We’ll catch you up at the top!
The first episode of the podcast is available now on Spotify, Apple, Amazon, Pocket Casts, Radio Public, Pandora, Podchaser, iHeart, Deezer, JioSaavn and YouTube or here on our website.
Performed by: Marcella Adams, Amber Jessie, Cosmic Kitty, Kristen Vaughan, Toni Watterson
Written and Directed by Emily Rainbow Davis
Sound Design - Matt Powell
Sound Engineer - Daniel Massey
Sound Assistant - Angela Santillo
Stage Management by Ella Lieberman
Produced by Melvin Yen
A new audio drama about a support group of women with a unique set of powers. Recorded live, with an audience
To help us make it, visit our Ko-fi page and donate. (We are a 501c3.)
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