From No Happy Endings by Nora McInerny:
The first rule of improv is YES.
Well, YES, AND …
the AND is important.
YES is acceptance and acknowledgment
of the reality you've been handed.
AND is where the good part happens.
The good part is a conjunction?
You bet it is.
Because AND is about possibility and opportunity.
AND includes WHAT IS
and makes room for WHAT COULD BE.
AND doesn't require you to love the situation,
or to like the situation;
it just requires you to live.
Nora McInerny's book is entitled No Happy Endings, but, just as I finished quoting her above, I bumped into Orson Wells who says:
If you want a happy ending,
that depends,
of course,
on where you stop your story.
So, I said YES to b&w exercise #3, accepting and acknowledging the line work that had brought it to this point:
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