It's a big one

 I was in a taxi in Vienna

Boy that really sounds braggy but it's okay, nobody reads this blog.

Anyway, I was in a taxi in Vienna and I got an idea for a musical. I made cautious inquiries, because when you have a big idea for a song or a play, it seems impossible that it hasn't been written yet. But it seems not to have been done yet.

It is a big one. It's inspired by Stephen King and my son's misguided literature teacher and Hadestown and Wicked and a bunch of other things. Í'm excited and overwhelmed and I know two things.

1) I cannot write this thing by myself. Clarification: I could, physically, be able to write this thing by myself. But it's so lonely and awful to write a musical alone, the writing is okay but then weathering the production and the everything, is too hard. I promised. I swore to myself I'd never do it again. So I am putting out feelers and networking and praying and wishing I knew what else to do to find the collaborators. 

Finding collaborators when you have a big idea is hard because 

2) at this point I'm all Gollum about my idea. It's my preciouss and you probably will steal it. I think I need to find collaborator candidates, work on some other thing with them, then figure who I want to trust. It will take patience and maturity. A big idea drives patience and maturity right out of my head. It's like being pregnant, the baby just shoves unimportant things like my internal organs out of its way. okay. 

breathe

breathe