On Writing: As a Writer and an Actress: Acting Classes

Today I read a blog post about whether or not an aspiring writer should take a writing course (You can find that post Here), and I decided I wanted to do my own post about a sort-of-but-not-really similar topic.

Acting Classes.

I've wanted to be a writer since about 7th grade and I've wanted to be an actress since my sophomore year, but I didn't take my first acting class until my junior year. As soon as we starting going over all the things you need to do as and actor, I knew that the class would help my writing. The different techniques really help you understand characters and avoid plot holes. When preparing a scene/monologue, you have to make choices, why is my character doing this, how can I portray this. You also have to figure out your characters goal and the conflict that stops the character from getting to that goal. Sigh, I feel like I'm explaining this all wrong and just confusing you guys...Just take my word for it, if you want to be writer, a good acting class can definately help you improve.

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Yoga

        Today I had my first real experience with yoga. It wasn't really my first experience, but my first REAL one, the others were in my acting class and all we did was sun salutations. Today I had a real yoga class. I take a dance class at my school and today we were supposed to be finishing the choreography for our show, but the Sophomores had to take the PSATs today, and one of the testing rooms was right across from us, so we had to do yoga ('cause it's quiet. Shhhh!). It was fun, except that I pulled to muscles (one in my shoulder and one in my leg).