first year - Feb. 13, 2014 - Feb. 13, 2015
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I've continued with a monologue a day until the spirit moves me to stop, so if you have any ideas for a monologue you want me to write, please let me know at tigerteam1@gmail.com.
If you just started this blog and want to read the earlier monologues-
For a list of the titles and blurbs from each day, click here There are now over 700!
Get more great award-winning monologues - MonologueZone.com
If you'd like to write your own monologues, I happen to have a book for that -
How to Write a Monologue in 10 Easy Lessons (Well, maybe not so easy)
Thank you for your comments - and for liking and sharing this site. Wishing you much success!
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Monologue Mania Day # 708 Thank you, Mom! by Janet S. Tiger Jan. 20, 2016
Thank you, Mom!
©Janet S. Tiger all rights reserved Jan. 20, 2016
tigerteam1@gmail.com
(The author comes onstage - yes, it is me!)
As a writer, I have so much to thank you for, Mom- the first training on those long bus and subway rides - training in how not to be bored....... how to do this by watching the other people. How you taught me how to pay attention to people, to my own intuition.....how to listen with my mind and my heart.
But one of the biggest helps was something you said when I asked how you could talk to an obnoxious person you had just turned into a friend, and you replied....'but I see them as they were when they were young, as a child......'
Which, of course, meant little that day. But, like the seed of a giant redwood, it germinated, and I started to look at people in reverse, try to figure out what THEY were like as children.
And then I had children of my own, and I continued to study, and I learned something very valuable - I could not find one baby who was obnoxious as a newborn.
Just as the good qualities surfaced through careful nurturing, if there were any, all the problems were infused through the nutrients of parents, and siblings......and friends, and neighbors and relatives and the society and school.....
My conclusion - no one was born a misery.
This has enabled me to deal with all types of people in the real world - a great help.
And so I learned about my characters the same way - no matter who they were when I first stumbled upon them in my brain, when they were born, they had a seed of good. And it was my job to show where that seed had gone, how it had grown - or been stunted and mutated.
Which I have tried to do in these monologues.
This last month has been difficult because not only has my only son moved several states away, but in this last ten days, I have learned of several family members and dear friends who I have just learned are struggling with cancers and heart problems. My prayers and good wishes are with them, and I hope this new year brings them renewed health.
I am blessed to have not only these, but all my world of friends and family and my heart is full with knowing you all. So today, I dedicate this monologue to all the characters in my real life - with the first and foremost - the one I met first, too! to my dear mother. Thank you, Mom - for ALL the great lessons! I love you....
(The author exits - to write another monologue!)
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Janet S. Tiger 858-736-6315
JanetSTigerMonologueMania.blogspot.com
Member Dramatists Guild since 1983
Playwright-in-Residence
Swedenborg Hall 2006-8
* Note: A few words about 'free' - all these monologues are protected under copyright law and are free to read, free to perform and video as long as no money is charged. Once you charge admission or a donation, or include my work in an anthology, you need to contact me for royalty info.
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