Living in Chaos

Voice Note: My terrible living situation, NYC, being a brat, and CHAOS

If you’re following my saga on IG, now you have the full story about why I had to move everything I own into a storage unit in 36 hours. Upgrade to paid because people owe me money and aren’t paying up and I’m so close to going PUBLIC about it and/or hiring cronies (joking….) Listen to all my Voice Notes here.

Mentioned: My How Long Gone episode, real brat status, why I can no longer make handshake deals, the drama between the nonnas in my neighbourhood, the Substack NYC reading, why I am in England, and why this moment is a throwback to the precarious eras of my youth. Oh…and something saucy about my grandmother.

Also, my Creative Independent interview is up…READ HERE. We talk about acting, synthesizing life through fiction, and womanhood!

On Fiction:

“I’ve always found that the dynamics between women is much better served in fiction. I have always thought this, and my idea of it has been more solidified as I’ve gotten older: I think romantic relationships are much better served visually on screen and in film than, for me, writing about it. Something about writing about relationships in fiction makes me feel very… you know what it is? I think it’s the weight of – let’s say in a heterosexual relationship – the weight of a man’s presence in fiction feels so much more heavy or present, and it’s almost like an imbalance with the female characters. At least, on screen, there’s an equal amount of visual time spent. You don’t feel that kind of like, oh, we have to think about what this man is going through. I feel like it’s a little bit more balanced in that way.”

“For me, the fun part about fiction is sending the bits and pieces that I have to friends and getting feedback on what we’ve been talking about. Because a lot of what I put in my fiction are the topics of conversation that are very present in my female friendships, what we go over and over again in our lives, trying to parse it out. And hoping when I send it out that I’m giving a shape to these concerns in a way that is only possible in fiction, I think.”

On acting:

“I’m not a really precious person. I don’t need perfection every time I do something. I just want to be able to do it in a way that feels to the best of my ability at that time. Again, I’m not very strict. I would be the worst stage mom. I’ve only done on camera stuff a few times, but I think it’s another interesting way to see how certain aspects of how I am are translating into a different medium. And if I’m collaborating on someone else’s project, how that is aiding in their storytelling.”

At the SUBSTACK Secrets Reading :)