July 28, 2026

2.4 Interview - Sarah Hamilton

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Sarah Hamilton is an actress and author known for her dynamic roles in web series and her engaging storytelling across multiple media—her work driven by a love for imagining new worlds and characters.

Perfect for aspiring actors, writers, or content creators aiming to leverage the fast-paced vertical industry—this is your blueprint for turning rapid filmmaking into lasting artistry.

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Welcome to My Vertical Obsession. I'm your host, Megan, and

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today I am joined by Sarah Himilton. She has been

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in a vertical series such as My Husband Is a

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Big Shot, Never Underestimate Girl, Math Who Are By Destiny Tempting,

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the Mafia, Twins, and Wrong. She's also an author with

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books The Enchantress, a royal status novel, and The Lies

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We Tell. So thank you Sarah for joining us today.

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Thank you.

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So first off, I just want to ask, would love

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to hear at a little bit about you and what

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got you into acting?

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Right? I always just loved storytelling. I wrote a lot

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of stories growing up, and it kind of led into

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getting into writing. And then I think a little after

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Igh School Musical happened, I was going into middle school

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and I joined drama club, and since that I just

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was like, I love doing this. I love being able

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to kind of bring these stories to life and really

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feel to the emotions of the characters. So I kind

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of just kept with it, and ever since I've been writing,

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I've still been doing a lot of acting, and I

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loved just storytelling overall just be of fun.

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So was there something that drew you to verticals or

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was it just I.

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Think when I had already been auditioning and self somity

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for a lot of different projects. And I've been in

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LA for close to eleven years now, which is wild.

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I moved out for college and then after just been

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acting and working NonStop up it's been really really fun,

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is I think once verticals started showing up, at first,

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like nobody really knew what they were, but then I

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kind of just saw more and more of them showing

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up through the testing websites and eventually deciding, you know what,

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let's try this out, Let's see what's going on. And

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I just remember the first day on one, I was

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just day player for like literally a day or two,

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and it moved so fast. It was very fast paced.

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It was just a lot of fun to be able

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to meet people and be on set and kind of

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just see how this world was going to be like.

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And just since then, like I kept auditioning in I've

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been kind of just invited into different ones from casting

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who had known me for previous ones, and it's just

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it's been a lot of fun.

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It sounds good, I know. I've heard from like other

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interviews and actors that kind of like almost like a

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soap type filming. Is that like with the fast paced

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It's like.

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Yeah, usually most projects I've been a part of, especially

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like if it's kind of like a union movie or

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TV show or something like that, we might get through

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a couple of scenes per day, versus like the verticals

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where you show up and you're doing like nine plus

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scenes per day. Like the entire call she was just filled,

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and you usually only get like a takeer too, and

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sometimes are rehearsing in the wide shot like at firds,

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like you're still trying to figure out what's going to happen.

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We're like, all right, let's just let's go for it.

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We don't have time. But it's really fun to work

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that fast because you really lock in on figuring out

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like Okay, I got it on my lines. We gotta

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go through these giant scenes and sometimes they're short, which helps,

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but really just like repetitive, very quick nature of it.

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Has been really cool to see that, and I think

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it's definitely helps me learn a lot about just acting

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and techniques and things that I definitely used to.

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Was there one series that you really enjoyed the experience

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of working on the.

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Set so many? Oh my, I Tamed in mind. First.

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I think there was one. I'm trying to think of

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the name of it. It's been a while, but there

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was one. There was definitely one in particular, I'm trying

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to think of the name of it. Changed. That's why

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I can't remember. The titles do change very often, so

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a lot of times what it turns into is not

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what it was when we filmed, so it's hard to

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keep track. But it was to eleven to Destroy, and

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I think at that point I'd already been the villain

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a few times over, so I really figured out, like, Okay,

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I know what I'm doing now. I think like the

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confidence kicked in at that point, and it was just

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really fun to just like not overthink what am I doing,

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How am I going to make this look good? How

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do I pull off being a villain, and just kind

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of like have fun with it and just enjoy it.

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So that one was actually that was pretty fun. There's

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another one for Supermarket Girl. I think it was like

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my first day of that one. We filmed out in

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Malibu and I got to be on a horse for

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my opening scene, and I thought it was so fun

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that I just had to like be on a horse

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with that, So, yeah, a lot of girl stuff like that. Definitely.

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Yeah, some of the ones that I've watched, it's interesting

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some of the scenes they have, and I'm like, that

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looks like so much fun to do and to see. Definitely,

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in any of the series that you have worked on,

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were there any fun ad libs or improv moments that

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made it into the series. I know you mentioned that

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it's it's fast paced and you have to get so

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might not be easy to make them in.

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Yeah, there's definitely some lines here and there that kind

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of just like adjust throughout. There's a fair amount of that.

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But I think there's one moment in particularly as my

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first villain role. It was for a runaway not the

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way princess. I don't think you have a different time.

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I'm blaked on the name of it, but I was

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I cannot think of the title for the weapon. Man,

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I'm so sorry, it's been a crazy day. It's okay,

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but yeah, anyway, I played Lady Sybil. It was a

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whole experience. I've never been the villain prior to that,

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and I just I was told be really big with it,

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like over the top normal levels of acting of big

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for this and I just naturally like giving fun reactions.

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So I was really exploring, like all right, let's let's

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react to every little thing that that's going on, and

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whether I thought the footage it was on me or not,

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I was just giving so many reactions. And I think

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one of the scenes those reactions like the focus wasn't

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necessarily on me if through most of it, And yeah,

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in editing, I guess they just chose a lot of

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my reactions to sprinkle into the scene. I was like,

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I must have done something right because it was funny

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seeing like they did not have to put me on

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that particular edit for that moment, and I just had

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so many like fun little moments like that, so that

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that was really funny.

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Yeah, that does sound fun. Going back to the titles,

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you mentioned that they changed, and I know I've heard

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that said before. It's like, are they just as crazy

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when they're like first before, like when they're put out.

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There, sometimes they're crazier. They changed every so often. I'm

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not quite sure what the process of that is on

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that side of it, but yeah, sometimes like what we're

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filming with is different even from like the original like

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booking then I'll change to filming and then sometimes once

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it come out then it's under a different title, so

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it's definitely harder to keep track of that, but I

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try my best. I have a notebook just for verticals

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where I write every title of all the ones I've done.

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Each few pages is for all the lines, so when

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I'm actually going through and filming, I keep track of, like, Okay,

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what day are we filming this scene? Here's all the lines.

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So I do just kind of help rego through it

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several times over and like keeping track like costumes and

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music inspiration and whatever random of other stuff I want

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to put in there. But that's been fun because every

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time one comes out, I'm able to go back in

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and say, oh, title change, and then rewrite in what

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the new title is and what platform and all of that.

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Yeah, because that's always something that I've always kind of

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like wanted to hear more about. Is because it's been

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I've heard, it's been mentioned, but I'm always like, how

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over the top or some of these titles to what

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they are now.

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It's try to emit. It's been over the top throughout.

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I've definitely had some crazy ones in there, but it's fun.

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I think it's just a fun part of it too.

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I think it's also one of those said it's very

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they think it's very eye catching because you're like, well,

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this is just the most ridiculous tale. Okay, I'll watch. Yeah,

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I know I've been known to do that too. Is

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where I'm like, Okay, this sounds interesting just by.

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The title alone. Yeah, there's fun.

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So now, going into the vertical series, I was interested

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to know if there was like a type of genre

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for the different verticals that you liked more than the others,

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and if there was one that you haven't done that

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you would love to do.

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I'd love to do. I know everyone says this musical one.

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I think a musical one would be so much fun.

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I'd love to do like a fantasy too, just fun

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medieval or like Mermaid or something like that. That's just

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that'd be so cool. I have a lot of fun,

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honestly with all of them I did. I like to

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kind of just experience what they're all like. I've done

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a lot of like CEO like that, kind of like

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rich people versions I've done. I did a werewolf one,

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which was actually really fun. There was one scene we

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all had to like howl up at the moon and

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there's I think there was a full moon that night,

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and I kid, you know, we're all but this house,

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like this mansion kind of in the middle of nowhere

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almost and I'm pretty sure like coyotes or wolves or

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something howled back it does and it was crazy. That

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was really cool. That was that was memorable. Yeah, well,

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I think the young adult ones are just kind of

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kind of fun too. I like those. I'd love to

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do another ice skating one. I'd have to do one

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as the best friend, which was super fun, but I

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actually grew up figure skating, so I'd love to actually

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be able to like state in one too. Yeah. I

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like them all. They're fun. Yeah, going to the music one,

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I would love.

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I wish they had more of them because I feel

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like that is one that they don't do as much of.

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It's like there's a few here and there, but you

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should definitely start kind of like bringing more of that

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because I feel like it be it'd be fun to see.

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I have ideas too. I've been writing a lot of

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like just different ideas of things that could be a vertical,

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of things that could maybe be a vertical or a

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book or movie or TV show or whatever, and just

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try and crank out so many different ideas. But yeah, yeah,

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that would be really cool. Hopefully there will be hopefully,

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so I think it'd be fun.

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So going into music, I know said that you create

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original music and you directed, You've also written some books,

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so what is like, what is it like working in

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all these different type of media and is there one

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that you enjoy doing more than the other?

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Think it keeps going back and forth between them at

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this point, Like right now, I'm definitely on a really

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good writing kick, and it's been a while because I've

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been kind of NonStop on the acting lately, so it's

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fun to kind of just go back into my writer brain.

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But the best way I put it is like having

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too many tabs open. That is where my brain's at

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all the time. And sometimes it's very overwhelming and like

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I don't even know where to begin because there's too

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many different things kind of streaming at me in my

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head all the time. And then other times it's like,

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all right, cool, like let's let's actually sit down and

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work on something and get it out there. So I

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really love them all. I think they all kind of interconnect,

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and I learned things from acting that I use in

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writing and vice versa, and like because it's just a

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really fun side thing I've been working on for a

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long time now. But I'm hoping to get more of

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that out there because that's the few songs that I

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have put out have had really like good responses from

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the people that I know who've heard them, and I'm like, well,

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maybe maybe there's something to this. So it's more just

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about like seeing where the creative flow comes in and

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out and just listening to that and putting things out

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into the world. When I think all right, this this

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feels pretty ready, I think I think it's time and

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just keep on creating. That's what I like to do.

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lies we tell looks really interesting and I really want

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to read it. So it's like it's on my this

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you think it's I wrote that, I want to say,

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first year of call it. And it was just so

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fun to be able to kind of create a more

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kind of just like darker frannything I've written before. It

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was definitely a little more young adult murder mystery kind

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of just cool vibes all around, and I think it

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make a great movie someday. I'm not just saying that

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as a road just I saw it kind of like

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a movie. And it was also fun writing each chapter

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back and forth between like the two main characters. So

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that was definitely a fun story to write.

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it looks like it could be a fun murder mystery

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series or movie, and I'm like, because I've gotten into

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very big murder or mysteries lately.

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think everything I've written and just created in general has

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taken so many different turns. Just I went from like

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a fantasy book to like a murder mystery book to

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like a Mermaid web series the modern and now even

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like with music, every song sounds pretty different from the

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last so far, and like every book plan and even

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like my list of ideas I mentioned about earlier for

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potential verticals or anything, like, they're all completely different from

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each other. So I don't really have like a set

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theme or anything. I kind of just like to see

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what ideas pop in and turn them into something, and

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sometimes that works out.

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You know, it's always nice to have options and different genres.

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in the past, where it's like all these different ideas

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that I have but nowhere to put them, and I'm

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just like, so it's it's very hard figuring out the

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process of how things should go. So that brings me

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to do you have like a set process when writing?

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will go so to beginning or end or does it

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just kind of flow as you write it? Usually the

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more I focus on something, the more I kind of

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just expand. So it's really just like choosing to look

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at kind of even just like the the glimps of

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knowing I need to make something and kind of just saying,

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all right, let's just dwell on that for a while

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and see what pops in. Like sometimes I'm inspired by like,

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maybe a certain location or color steam or just something

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really simple or like a line that I think is cool,

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or just some kind of like core idea for it,

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and then I kind of just go into that and

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try to figure out how is that going to make sense?

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the problems? Where's the good parts? Like what does that

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movie and had just in my braink go, okay, if

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this was a movie or a TV show, like what

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would this look like? Even if it's for a book,

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it could be anything, and then just kind of write

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it out. I try to give a loose plan for

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what's going on, just so like I don't really get

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stuck anywhere. But even when I do get stuck, I'll

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just go back and be like, all right, let's work

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at something else for a while and then come back

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to it, and then at that point be like, all right, cool,

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let's get back into it and see what happens. Yeah.

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Sometimes I have the beginning really strong and the ending

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really strong, in the middle is just a huge question mark.

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I find that happens often. But we did there eventually.

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up with, like a beginning and end, but how to

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get there is sometimes the most difficult. Yeah. So my

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next question is what's one piece of advice you would

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give someone starting out in your field, whether it is acting, writing,

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doing what you want to do at whatever level that

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this doesn't it's not good yet because you know what

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that yet because you still know you're still learning. So

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as long as you're doing the best at whatever level

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you're at, and you keep working on and focusing on it, like,

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it does work eventually. And I think kind of just

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constantly creating, putting stuff out there being like, hey, this

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is what I'm doing, Like you kind of grow an

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audience a little bit that way, and then you're able

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to look back on the previous stuff and see how

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you've grown throughout. But definitely, just like drive write down

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ideas as much as possible in a notebook, so no

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matter what, you can look back on ideas that as

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they kind of come through, and just keep on creating.

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because I just wanted to. When I was like bored

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fun thing to do today, no pressure to It is

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always what creates the best stuff, at least in my experience.

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what is one lesson in your job? I'll say, you know, acting,

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writing music has taught you that you think everyone should

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learn at some point in their life.

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I think just so few. I think the main thing

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is kind of just thinking about, like what makes you happy.

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whatever you do as a kid when you're bored is

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what you end up enjoying the most throughout your life.

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stories and like gatting them out, and just these we're

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the things I enjoy doing. So the more I kind

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of get into that, the more I just feel happy.

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able to chase things that make you happy is very good.

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a bunch of ideas, sometimes there's a bunch of things

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going on. Work why sometimes it's really slow and there's

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nothing so like writing the waves of life has also been.

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have out there. So yeah, so that's actually the last

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question I had. Is there anything else that you may

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want to talk about or yeah putting you on this

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spot now, do you have some fun personal projects?

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We've all kind of been missing those lately. But at

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the same time, like I have kind of gotten back

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into kind of my own creative works for a while

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and hopefully finishing up my La Mermaid's web series. So

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season two is very very close, hopefully soon. I've been

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saying that for a long time, but hopefully hopefully soon.

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I don't if any on releasing, just probably more music

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and books and all sorts of fun creative stuff soon.

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So yeah, somesterns what I'm working on at But this

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has been fun.

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Thank you well, thank you for joining. I I'm really

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happy that you could come and join for this.

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Thank you so much.

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So now I was just gonna do the outro and

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I was saying, so, this has been my vertical obsession.

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I've been talking to Sarah Hamilton. I'm your host, Meghan

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and until next