Just a makeshift show-and-tell, playing out the lives of the lost and found

[sovay]

So I was thinking about actors, and about writing about actors, and about the ways in which it very slightly sucks that I am involved with derspatchel because it does impair me from writing about him as I would with any other character actor whose work I really like, when I realized that if we keep everything together, by the time his next show goes up in December we'll be married and I'll have that much more conflict of interest.

That blew my mind. I'm going to bed.

Comments

[muffyjo]

He has such a wide spectrum of skills that I would imagine he would be hard to write for even if you weren't marrying him, although I will admit it does make the objectivity difficult at first. But George and Gracie did it. I have faith you can, as well. You both have such an amazing amount of talent and love together that I cannot imagine it won't make the process richer in the end.

[papersky.livejournal.com]

I have a thing where if I write about the work of close friends and partners, I say that they are whatever they are to be and add "and if you think that affects how I feel about their work then you don't know me very well" ot "you haven't seen the tottering piles of books written by my friends that I've not got around to" or things of that nature.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Honestly, sovay, you go and meet an interesting person, one who would be great to write about, and then you have to complicate things by getting engaged!

(But I like your choice of subject line, and your listening matter)

--Okay, ETA to say I've just read the comments and realized I wasn't reading your entry quite right. I was assuming you meant using him to inform characters--but as I read it over again, I realize you were talking about writing about his acting. I'm sorry: I wasn't reading carefully. .... I might still have responded in a teasing vein, but I do see how you might feel inhibited (i.e., it's not a problem to be laughed away)--and yet I think it's much better to see it as a manifestation of Tiny Wittgenstein and go ahead and write, if you feel inclined.