The Alysia System

Ya'll couldn't even handle HER.

This is Linda, 60

Alexis, 64

Helena, 63

Kendrah, 72 (!!)

Tasha, 65

Do you experience this same temptations? If so, how do you manage them?

Oh I experience it constantly, I'm technically experiencing it right now (I should be editing instead of checking tumblr lol), but I'm presuming you mean distracted more in the 'get caught up in researching or making something unrelated to the project itself'. I think getting distracted like that is just part of the process. The real important bit is being able to distinguish between the rabbit holes that benefit the project and those that don't. I spent about a month looking over neuroscience for things that might be useful for some of the points I was hoping to explore in the Haruspex video - and it was really interesting! It was compelling and did feel like it gave me a lot to consider and I really wanted to explore it more fully! But also, it was utterly disconnected from the original theatre research I was working on, reinforced my case without really adding to it, and would have added months of not just extra research, but broadly educating myself enough that I could be confident I wasn't just talking out my ass. After a certain point, I had to place a fence around what i wanted this specific project to be and what was influencing it and hone in on that. There will be time for more creating and learning later, but for now I'm making this thing, and I need to be cutthroat about what's relevant and focus on diving deep into that. Staying curious while also staying focused.

Beyond that, learn to value and appreciate the little details. Animating the dialogue text for the patho vids is a boring, tedious chore in the moment, but I know how much life it gives to everything once it's done, so I try to stay focused on how cool it will be to see that.