Dear Lin-Manuel Miranda
Dear Lin-Manuel Miranda
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#1Dear Lin-Manuel Miranda
Posted: 11/23/15 at 7:30pm
Thank you so much for your inspirational work in Hamilton. I have been using "Non-Stop" as the cornerstone of my Get Psyched playlist every day in November while I try to write 50,000 words as part of National Novel Writing Month. Your beautiful show demonstrates that it is possible to get a whole lot of words out of one head and into the world. The motto of NaNoWriMo is "Stories Matter," and I think that's why we've all gone crazy over Hamilton, that's your message too. Also, by publishing this open letter, I earn a "Gratitude" merit badge, but I totally would have written this anyway. Thanks for helping me get that badge. I really wanted that badge.
Love,
Namo from @NaNoWriMo
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
Hamilton22
Broadway Star Joined: 7/18/15
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#5Dear Lin-Manuel Miranda
Posted: 11/23/15 at 9:05pm
Maybe you should go to night school with Carlos.
#6Dear Lin-Manuel Miranda
Posted: 11/23/15 at 9:07pm
#FromHeadtoWorld
Hamilton22
Broadway Star Joined: 7/18/15
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#8Dear Lin-Manuel Miranda
Posted: 11/23/15 at 9:37pm
I SHOULD go to night school! I went to art school. My entrance exam was on a book of matches!
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#10Dear Lin-Manuel Miranda
Posted: 11/23/15 at 10:16pm
You guys. What if Lin reads this thread???
Oh well. I guess it's messy just like democracy.
Hamilton22
Broadway Star Joined: 7/18/15
#11Dear Lin-Manuel Miranda
Posted: 11/23/15 at 10:27pm
I've been reading common sense by Thomas Paine. Some posters think I'm intense or that I'm insane. You want a revolution I want a revelation, so listen to MY declaration: We hold these truths to be self evident that all posters are created equal. And when I meet Bernie Sanders I'm gonna convince him to include Broadway in the sequel, BOOM!
Mekroth
Broadway Star Joined: 2/23/08
#13Dear Lin-Manuel Miranda
Posted: 11/23/15 at 11:47pm
Oh boy, I'm entering the weird part of BWW again.
#14Dear Lin-Manuel Miranda
Posted: 11/23/15 at 11:56pm
Dear Hamilton22:
Talk less.
Oh, and smile more.
Just don't let us know what you're against or what you're for.
yr pal,
Joey
#15Dear Lin-Manuel Miranda
Posted: 11/24/15 at 6:24am
Back on topic, I thought that was a really cool post Namo.
It's just amazing how Hamilton inspires so many people in so many different ways.
I'm aware of National Novel Writing Month (although I sorta tweak it as National Composition Month as I write with music rather than words).
Good luck with you writing!
And thanks to Lin for inspiring me too.
sabrelady
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
#16Dear Lin-Manuel Miranda
Posted: 11/24/15 at 7:41am
My entrance exam was on a book of matches!
so your next step to channel Rhoda Morgenstern is to move Minneapolis where it's cold and you figure you'll keep better? (parental unit will refer to this as" the time u ran away from home"
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#17Dear Lin-Manuel Miranda
Posted: 11/24/15 at 9:35am
It's plenty cold where I live!!!
although I sorta tweak it as National Composition Month as I write with music rather than words
Holy crap, I can't even conceive of that.
In case my original post was a little too light on this detail, you earn the Gratitude merit badge by thanking somebody who has inspired you to write. You got yours too Taz!
brdlwyr
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/14/05
#18Dear Lin-Manuel Miranda
Posted: 11/24/15 at 9:44am
Less freaks on Twitter.
Namo - are you actually writing? Hard to read between the lines in this thread.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#19Dear Lin-Manuel Miranda
Posted: 11/24/15 at 9:53am
Yeah, I've been writing so much my brain is muddy and I couldn't even make a simple post about publicly speaking of my gratitude to an inspirational writer!
Yes, I have written more this month than I have in years. National Novel Writing Month emphasizes quantity over quality (that's what revision is for!), so it's 30 days, 50,000 words. A few of my words are pretty good!
The best lesson I have learned is what happens when I set aside specific time rather than thinking I'll accomplish much when the muse descends every once in a while.
Liza's Headband
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/28/13
#20Dear Lin-Manuel Miranda
Posted: 11/24/15 at 10:05am
Jordan -- Hamilton22 is Broadway Guy, not PhillyPinto.
Auggie27
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/03
#21Dear Lin-Manuel Miranda
Posted: 11/24/15 at 10:11am
The muse is a capricious bitch, best wooed with an egg timer set to put aside minutes away from Facebook and BWW. Or so says the graffiti in the library men's room, often spot-on in the past about so many things.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#22Dear Lin-Manuel Miranda
Posted: 11/24/15 at 10:16am
"best wooed with an egg timer"
^^^ I LOVE THIS! It'd be a great t-shirt slogan.
#23Dear Lin-Manuel Miranda
Posted: 11/24/15 at 10:17am
Auggie27 said: "The muse is a capricious bitch, best wooed with an egg timer set to put aside minutes away from Facebook and BWW. Or so says the graffiti in the library men's room, often spot-on in the past about so many things."
You should expand on this...sounds like an epic novel in-the-making....
#24Dear Lin-Manuel Miranda
Posted: 11/24/15 at 10:29am
And one of the advantages for me with dealing in quantity is that I don't have time to overthink and/or censor myself.
Even if a piece sucks I print it and put it aside so I can meet the quota.
When I go back and look at what I've written I may find that there is merit and something worth keeping in a piece I may have otherwise simply tossed aside because at that moment the little voice in my head told me it sucked.
Of course a lot of it ends up being junk, but that's ok too.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#25Dear Lin-Manuel Miranda
Posted: 11/24/15 at 10:30am
Exactly! Sounds great. (We've just encouraged each other, so make sure you get the merit badge for that!)
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