The Show! By Dezy Walls
Prologue
It is the mark of an artist to create something, which formerly existed only in his or her heart. David Mamet (Playwright and screenwriter)
I do want something from this.
I know I said I don’t care as long as The Show works but I want my sanity, that’s what I want. If I say The Show will be a sensation around the world and people say I’m mad then only The Show, doing as I say it will, gives me back my sanity. You see where I’m coming from?
I knew someone who would circle every capital ‘I’ in a piece to show the selfishness of the writer. Count them if you like. There are ten in that first paragraph. Do I care? I would have happily put in ten more because, although I write this for you, my friends, it is my story. It is not a story I planned; yet I do not regret it. It is the story thrust on me by The Show.
I was doing OK for a person with average expectations from life. I could earn a good living slapping a piano, belting out songs to make people laugh for two hours each night. Who wouldn’t want that life? Me obviously, because I walked away and slammed the door behind me!
Click here for the first 7 chapters…it’s an ongoing work.