Steady Now

Welcome back, Acting Fans and fellow bloggers and people of the Internet, it's Friday once again and time for me to have my say, my way!

So! Me and Chris got to have our weekly minimum meet-up yesterday in a coffee house (well, we are writers after all) and main focus of topic was to discuss what we shall still refer to as the Mystery Opportunity. And after much talking about the Mystery Opportunity we both ultimately felt at this moment in time we were not quite ready to take it. You see the Mystery Opportunity has only come to our attention recently and it would mean getting paid to do H&H stuff but we would only have 2 months, during some of which I shall be treading the boards (but that's for another post, oh yes, once a tease always a tease), to come up with something funny, that would work and what we would be happy with presenting to the public LIVE. So as much as Chris and I do want to do this Mystery Opportunity, we think it would be better for us to plan it out more thoroughly and make sure that we are happy with what do. Not some rushed version of a live show might not work so well, though the idea of making some money via H&H is tempting we remembered the golden rule - 'Never do anything for the Money'. To quote Neil Gaiman, "Every now and again, I forget that rule, and whenever I do, the universe kicks me hard and reminds me. I don't know that it's an issue for anybody but me, but it's true that nothing I did where the only reason for doing it was the money was ever worth it, except as bitter experience. Usually I didn't wind up getting the money, either." There's always next time, which is why we are keeping the Mystery Opportunity a Mystery in case we pull it off later. Despite putting it aside for now, we did come up with a number of ideas we will try to develop into live performances whilst we continue with our episodes and vlogs. Keep your eyes peeled, Acting Fans!

A blatant attempt at extra hits by using pure prime Tumblr bait, you say? Perish The thought!

Okay, so what else do I know you want to know? Ah, yes, we discussed some more about up and coming Vlogs (possibly new format ones), tried to get some more ideas down and think about a workable way to get on with shooting the last episode of series one. As we need to do it, for US and for you - The series 1 hiatus is getting crazy long now! Don't worry the Actor's log shall be continuing too, it's too much fun to stop.

We got on to a brief discussion about series 2, yep, we are still going to do a 2nd series too, like we said there is some very BIG plans for H&H. So please, please, please like and share our videos please. With a cherry on top. And all the Bells & Whistles.

Okay, see you all in the future and at H&H HQ two!

TTFN

Vernon Harcourt

Spirit Of The Staircase

Welcome to the weekend, Acting Fans, and todays blog post title is a translation of the french phrase 'L'esprit d'escalier'. Like a lot of french phrases it's one of those that doesn't have as succinct a way of saying what it means in any other language, like Déjà vu. 'The feeling that one has been/done something before even if you haven't' just doesn't quite cut it by comparison.
'L'esprit d'escalier' means the clever things you think to say after a conversation has ended, all the 'oh, I should have said that's that hit as you leave or have left, quite often as your feet land on the steps out the front door. I like to think of it as a sort of metaphysical Columbo. (Although the Lieutenant himself usually remembered before he finished leaving.)

"Eh, Just one more thing, sir..."

It was something a little what I felt as I edited Wednesday's blog for posting, something had been nagging me since our meeting on Tuesday night but it wasn't until Wednesday that exactly what it was coalesced in my mind. Now the exact thing would be [SPOILERS] if I wrote it here but suffice to say an element we'd deliberately added to the Summer Special hadn't been utilised to full effect in the first draft so, shortly after posting, I tapped out my additional idea and emailed it to Vern. Who will get back to me about it in due time.

Now we've been unable to get a second meet-up together this week, nevertheless Vern is keeping busy as he's casting his net wide to try get a willing victim kind volunteer to make themselves available to play the third wheel required for the Summer Special.

That's all for this week, Internet Chums, so get out there and enjoy the sunshine but don't forget to tune in next week!

TTFN

Christopher Haigh