Is this topic okay?

[hloonves]

<p>I'm not going to school for a couple years but I'm already thinking about my essay. I plan to major in performing arts and pursue a career in theatre, so I was wondering if this essay topic would be okay. I want to write about how I've found my passion in acting since I was six, and the journey I've been on since then, finding myself and letting go of the people who don't support me. Is this boring or clich</p>

[chippedtea]

<p>While it isn’t the “most unique idea everrrrrrrr,” it is a decent topic. Just make sure it means something to you and that you’ll be able to put your heart and soul into it. Something I learned in this app process is that the topic matters much, much less than you think; it really is how you write it that counts. Many others might choose to write about a similar journey, but make sure that once you’re done, only you were able to write what you wrote.</p>

[hloonves]

<p>thanks for the advice!! :)</p>

[perfectpixie]

<p>It sounds like a really interesting idea. I wrote on a similar topic in one of my essays!
Look, all topics have probably been used one time or another, it’s how you write that counts. You cannot reject a topic just because you think it’s overused, if you’re passionate about something, then you write well on it, plain and simple, and if you write well on a topic, then you make a good impression. I think a lot of people in performing arts have a similar story, but it still makes an interesting read.

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finding myself and letting go of the people who don’t support me. Is this boring or clich</p>

[hloonves]

<p>awesome, thanks so much :)</p>

[jerevedeparis]

<p>If you’re an amazing writer you can write about anything and make it great! Have confidence in your paper, and display your passion and it will be great :)</p>

[glassesarechic]

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I want to write about how I’ve found my passion in acting since I was six, and the journey I’ve been on since then, finding myself and letting go of the people who don’t support me. Is this boring or clich</p>

[digmedia]

<p>chippedtea is so right above. It’s how you write it… and trying to find a unique topic is so overrated.</p>

<p>Here is some advice on how to write your essay: Show, don’t tell!!! How do you do that? You create a “scene” like a movie script, to show you at an important point along your path to who you are now. And, like a movie, it is very important to show a “story arc” (sometimes called character development - and the main character is YOU). Your brief description above of what you want to wirte about contains that character development. And it is important to show a stronger, more confident YOU at the end of the essay. Here is an example from the book Concise Advice: Jump-Starting Your College Applications Essays:</p>

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<p>It was hot backstage, and we all were a little sweaty. Actors were busy with heavy period costumes and stage make-up, several spraying gray into their hair to make themselves look older than the students they were. The sounds and smells of preparation tinged the air and added to the excitement of the evening. The young woman playing Petra, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Stockman in Ibsen’s “An Enemy of the People,” came to me, Already in her long brown dress, she was holding a sizable pillow and some safety pins. She held out the pillow - a lumpy mass with a flowered pillowcase - for me to take. “Quick,” she said, with a conspiratorial grin, “help me pin this under my skirt.” I didn’t at first realize what she wanted me to do…</p>

<p>It was the final dress rehearsal before opening night and the cast had the play down pat. The first full dress had gone so well that a series of pranks and minor line changes had been planned as practical jokes on the director. </p>

<p>Even though I was enlisted as a stagehand, this was also my first acting gig. I was an extra in the crowd scene, the one who throws a stone shattering a glass window pane. How had I been convinced to go onto the stage? I thought every eye would focus on my moment, the rock would miss its mark, and reviewers would surely point out that the play would have been a great success “except for one crowd member who singlehandedly sabotaged the night.”</p>

<p>I watched from just off-stage as Petra, wrapped in a cloak and hat and holding a bundle of books, awaited her initial entrance in Act I. On cue, she walked onto the set as her father said the line, “Good evening, Petra. Come along.”</p>

<p>Petra leaned over to settle her books onto a chair. She stood up, placed her hat on a rack, and began to remove her cloak abd recite her lines. “And you have all been sitting here enjoying yourselves,” she said, “while I have been out being very busy.” The cloak dropped to the floor, revealing a very “pregnant” Petra!</p>

<p>The director’s face froze into place, but no one could continue with the play. Laughter overtook us all, cast and crew. And at that moment, all of my nervousness melted away and was replaced by a sheer sense of fun. In a later scene, throwing the rock through the window went perfectly, just an extension of the joy of the evening. Being on stage wasn’t so bad after all.</p>

<p>I went on to bigger and better roles, each helping reinforce the fact that I was most at home in the theater, but the feeling was fed by the camaraderie of the people who all work together to get from a first reading to opening night. </p>

<p>That dress rehearsal was the igniting of a passion that grew, flame-like, starting with that lumpy pillow in the flower print pillowcase.</p>

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