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Saturday, April 23, 2016

(VIDEO) DEALING WITH FAILURES

Emily Frankel asks her husband, John Cullum, how he deals with failures.

John, quoting Kipling, refers to success and failure as "two imposters."

As the Cullums remember some of their projects that "bombed," John's thoughts on the subject bolster and delight Emily.

3 comments:

Stan said...: Great program Em. Success and faillure can be fleeting visitors, but the older I get the more each day filled with life is a success. Thanks so much; April 23, 2016 at 12:15 PM
SCOOPDAA said...: It's what we learn from our failures that makes us stronger & more successful...; April 23, 2016 at 1:14 PM
AI Decisions said...: Many people had failures,Edison,Col Sanders, just to name a few. I think it is more from what you learn from the experience. Sounds complicated though to many moving parts. Orchestra, stagehands. Have a wonderful weekend you two.; April 23, 2016 at 5:16 PM

HOW I GOT HERE

I'm a writer, writing things that haven't brought me fame, but continue to involve me, inspire me to find an audience.

I started out as a modern dancer, contemporary, but balletic. I didn't want to be a swan, or a barefoot dancer. I wanted to dance to the music that thrilled me as a child, and made me want to be a dancer.

I began writing in the truck my first husband, Mark Ryder and I bought, in order to carry our set, props, and costumes for a long one-night-stands tour -- eighty-eighty performances in eighty-eight cities.

We were performing "Romeo and Juliet" nightly, but our marriage was breaking up. Every day while our stage manager drove us two-hundred miles or so to the next booking, I'd type a detailed description of last night -- what we did well, what we argued about, and a travelogue about the town, and comments from the people at the nightly party.

Recovering from the trip and the divorce, I sent my "car book" to a friend who said -- "Em, it's great,
but ..." And that became rewrites, and another book. Then, my marriage to actor John Cullum, and then a play that got produced, and another book, big hopes because a famous agent loved it.

The title and concept changed five times -- now it's been published, finally, as "Somebody, Woman of the Century." You can buy it, or read about it and my other five novels on Emily Frankel.com

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