Resources Migrated! Find new articles at ImprovUpdate.com instead
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Why?
I decided to move my resources to Canadian servers. I am disappointed that Substack is not just helping extreme right-wing ideologies proliferate on this platform, bad enough… but they are also partnering with them (for right-wing publication’s financial advantage), and also promoting them officially here under their own business/platform entity.
This is not okay especially as an autistic person, being part of the marginalized communities hurt most by right-wing extremism. It is also not okay as those same publications Substack themselves promote believe in attacking my sovereign nation of Canada.
So I moved my content onto a platform I control that lives in Canada, moved the podcast to a non-American host, and I encourage anyone else who is affected by this to do the same. Which is why this page is still here.
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The article “Connecting to yourself for honest characters”
This article about Connecting to yourself for honest characters was moved to this page on ImprovUpdate.com. Click that link to find it.
New articles and resources (such as downloadable PDFs on these improv, comedy and neurodiversity topics) are now released on my site at ImprovUpdate.com.
Learn about the move and why these improv resources were moved in this article.
That's a fun and helpful idea for connecting to a character. It would be interesting for people without background on thinking about (or developing) "character" to hear a few examples. Like, do they have to be exaggerated? What is the line between a (truly) regular person you work with and a "character"? Am I already a character as I am? And when you try it on your own in the exercise you suggest, how do you even know if you are doing a "good job"? No pressure to answer these questions - but they popped in my mind. :)