You just need something on your resume really....

Lats year I learned a lot of lessons.  These lessons were on the path of trying to do things that would help my career, but instead of completing the tasks I set out to do, I ended up learning (through doing it the wrong way) what I should have done.  Anyone who knows me at all knows that I am an advocate of team-work and socialising and have a real comradely approach to all things in life.  This is great it turns out as a human - but as a business woman it lacks power.
If you want to get a show up - do one.  Don't wait until that other actor is free to meet up over a glass of wine and talk about a plan for writing a show.  Do it.  Now.
If you want to write a show. Do it.
It took me a long time to learn that the first draft will never be perfect, and that your idea IS good.  It also took me a long time to learn that the best actors I know are just always doing stuff.  Their resume looks incredible, and they don't dread the question 'So, what are you in?  or 'Have you done anything lately?'  They love it when people ask because they have a response of 'Yes- I recently did this/or wrote this or directed this'  No-one ever checks up and says 'Was it good', 'How much money did you make? or 'Did you have a speaking role?'  They just like that you have an answer that is positive and interesting and are usually generally impressed that you have been busy as an actor.
There's no question an actor dreads (well, actors like me who are no-where near as busy as they want to be!) than 'Are you in anything at the moment'.  How does one avoid squirming out of this line of questioning?  By doing something.
How do you do it?
You put pen to paper, or speech to dictaphone or idea to film and you develop it and you get your friends/fellow actors/anyone who says yes - and you put on a show.  Do it in a park, do it in a theatre, do it on the street do it wherever the hell you want,  just make sure that you do it.  Put it on your resume and be proud to be doing something.  You won't win an oscar for it, but you will win that delicious sense of being a part of something you love.
P.S Nike really should sponser me.........
xoxoxoox