Oh, hi friends!

"I'm a musical theater writer now. This tweet is important for posterity."

I wrote this at the beginning of last year when I was not, technically, a musical theater writer. I had not written a musical. I had never even written words to music. And yet, I told myself I was. It felt delusional to even type it. 

Yet somehow I knew that it was important to say out loud (or at least to Twitter). Because of one reason: The words you use to describe yourself matter more than the words others use to describe you. 

A few months later, I had enough lyrics (still not set to music!) to audition and get into the BMI Musical Theatre Workshop…and actually realized how little I knew. Self-doubt! Worry! So many misaccented lyrics! And yet all I wanted was to learn.

Then, last night, after many months and ohmygoshsomuchwork, composer Kristoffer Bjarke and I presented our final first-year project: a 10-minute musical we called “Letters from May.” 

It went very, very, very well. Like, beyond my wildest expectations well. Like, I’m floating.

Call yourself whatever you want to call yourself.

The words you use to describe yourself matter. They set your intention — and they pull you toward your future.

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Thanks, as always, for reading.

Love, Kara