 Okay, it's watch me work. It's five o'clock on. What day is it Wednesday May 13 May 13 that what are all those photographs in back of you. My partner and I take pictures of ourselves every single day. Here he is painting his nails today. That's so great. Yeah, yeah, that's really fantastic. I love it. I love it. Okay, well, it's watch we work it's Thursday the 13th of May it's Stevie Wonder's birthday. And yeah, and we're here we're doing watch we work where we spend time talking with you about your work and your creative process I'm SLP Susanary Parks I'm the master writer chair of the public theater. We've been doing this show for 11 years mostly in the lobby of the public theater, where we've been have been supported by the public theater and more recently howl around who has helped us live stream, create live stream while we're doing it live in the public theater and recently of course they've come on board to help us create this beautiful virtual community with you guys. What we do is we write together or work together someone was texting me yesterday going oh I'm not a writer. It's fine. It's any kind of work you do if you are a gardener. If you are an architect, if you are a musician. Yesterday I was playing my guitar, I had it on mute, which is really fun. Anything you do writing whatever you do. You do your work, we do it together we work together for 20 minutes, and then we talk about your work and your creative process of what we have about 40 minutes to do that what we don't have time to do is talk about something you're writing, but we do have a lot of time to talk about your work and your creative process which allows us to keep the conversation open and accessible to everybody. So if you have, if you have a question at the end of the 20 minutes work period, Audrey's going to tell you how to get in touch. Yes, I will. So if you're in the zoom, what you'll do is you will click on the raise your hand button in the participant tab likely at the bottom of your screen if you're on a laptop or the top of your on an iPad or a tablet. And if you have trouble with that please feel free to shoot me a chat I will do my best to help you out with that. If you're watching this stream on how round TV you can actually tweet at us at at watch me work SLP with the hashtag howl round h o w l r o u n d. Or you can tweet at the public theater which is at public theater and why or you can go into the public theater Instagram questions there. That's it. Right. All right, we're going to get started. And we're going to work together for 20 minutes and then we're going to talk with you about your process here we go. All right. All right. There we go. There we go that was 20 minutes of work. So, now we got questions who's got some questions or things they want to have a conversation about anybody, everybody, everybody. See any hands raised. Oh, we got one. I was going to say we could sit in silence. I'm Laura or Lori. Are you with us. Yes. Hi. Hi. Hi from France. Oh, right on. So my question is a little maybe a little off topic because I'm not a. I'm not a writer portrayed I guess. I do translate books, but I'm a therapist. And I'm working on a on a program, like on a six months online program that will end in an in person workshop in Japan, next year. Wow. And yeah, many different things happening. And one of the aspects of this program is that I'm going to have people write stories about their life and about nature. And then we will share them when we'll meet together. And my question is this. I'd be curious to have your ideas or your insight. Because I come from family of writers. And so the act of writing was never like scary to me. I write and it's work, but I don't have to do the extra work of getting over fear of it or my, you know, lack of self esteem around what I'm writing or whatever it is. And I'm wondering how I could, there was any things that I could do that would be a good warm up for people before I start having them write stories. I would get over that hurdle of putting words on paper, knowing that, you know, it's not going to be about critique anyway because I don't speak Japanese well enough. It's about, you know, like getting them to kind of start putting themselves on a piece of paper and like, you know, getting over the hurdle of, of anything that might be in the way like, you know, traumatic school experience or whatever it is that happens that. Uh huh. It's, do you pronounce your name Lori or Laura, Lori. Sorry, Laura, Laura, yeah. It's interesting, because you, I mean, you know your students well right do you. Yeah. No, I know some of them. I'll be taking the group like, you know, I'll be obviously after six months I'll be knowing them. But I know the their teacher they're the head of the school is polarity therapy school it's like a whole different thing. And some of them I don't know them very well. So you don't know if they have any traumatic school experiences. No, no, no, it's like, no, it's not like a specific thing. It's just like, you know, how to kind of get them into that into that thing of being able to put themselves on paper. You know, I would just encourage them to write. I mean, because we, we, you know, assuming that they would have some difficulty doing it is going to encourage them probably to have a little bit of difficulty. You see, I mean, you don't have that you say you don't have difficulty. I'm not going to assume, I'm not assuming that anybody who comes to visit during watching work has any difficulty writing I just would think they might have questions about process. You know, yeah. But once we start assuming that somebody that we don't know is going to have difficulty doing something, then. And we've got to say, okay, so you're going to start writing it's going to be hard. You know, but I mean, already people are like, oh no, it's hard. Instead of you're going to start writing. For sure. Yeah, no, I know that some of them are really not used to that. Yeah, but that's okay. Hey, I mean, I mean I honestly think if the less we, we encourage the ideas of difficulty, the fewer, the fewer problems they might have. And as they come to you and they might say, it's hard I can't sit down then you address their specific problems if they say I have trouble, I have trouble sitting down and focusing great you say, use a timer. You see you see what I mean so we. Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, totally. Or, or, or my children are in the house all the time and, and my apartment's very small and I can't, you know, find a spot could say if libraries are open or coffee shops are open again at that time you know maybe go to a coffee shop or wake up early or stay up late and find the time. You know, I want to write like a great writer and I don't feel like I write like a great writer me these are specific problems that they might come to you with. Right. And say, again, just lower the bar right about yourself. It's going to be great. Thank you. You know what I mean. So, yeah, yeah, so I would I would just be specific, like, start by just saying right, have fun. You know, write a page by tomorrow or whatever the deadline is and then if they come to you with specific problems, then we can address their specific problems. They might not have any, they might be like you. You know, like, boom, it's easy. Or it's easy, but you know, it's not, you know, it's not, it's not a, it's not a struggle. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, like some, yeah, like some people exercising, you know, some people like, you know, I'd like to go outside and run around and do stuff, you know, or go to the gym or whatever. It's easy for me, you know, it's easy for me to get outside and be active. Some people like, oh, they would not go to the gym ever, you know, and it's just a different way of life, you know, but we start from wherever they are. And when you want to put ideas in there, realize that you as a teacher are putting ideas in their head, and just be very mindful about the ideas that you're putting in their head and address their problems specifically. You know, yeah, I'm also because I know that I'll have a translator and so you know, some things, the communication is going to be a little not as easy as it would be here or it would be in another class. But yeah, no, definitely. Thank you so much. Yeah, it's great. It sounds like a great program you're doing. I think it's going to be, and yeah, it's going to be interesting. And then we'll meet together. When do you get together with them? Fall of 2021. Oh, the fall of great after the Olympics. Yeah, after the Olympics. And then while they're writing they'll also be working on a piece of fabric of like making a quilt. Oh, wow. And then we'll make a quilt together and tell stories. That's gorgeous. Wow. It's going to be, it's going to be cool. It's very cool. It's cool already. Wow, what a beautiful project. Yeah, congratulations. Thank you. Thanks for coming to visit. Thank you. Thank you for your kindness. Yeah. So nice to meet you. Yeah, I know, right. It's such a great community we have. Up next you've got Rebecca. All right, Rebecca. Go for it. Hey, SLP. Hi, good to see you, Rebecca. Good to see you too. So I'm so happy this is happening on a daily basis. My Mondays all got away from me for, you know, you got a little busy. Yeah, you used to come hang out with us in the public theater. Yeah. Yeah. So I'm, I'm coming to the end of the piece I've been working on for a very long time. And I have a question about time in the piece. I decided to set, I've set it up so that it jumps decades and between a couple or three lives. And, and the, the, the conceit is that there's an ever present now that these past actions are protecting or affecting. And I'm just a little worried about too many time periods and how to sort of what sort of what the reader can manage with the jumping between time periods. And this isn't science fiction. It's, it's, you know, nonfiction. And I was wondering if you have any thoughts about that or. And yeah, about sort of using time as, as almost as a character in the piece. So you've got Rebecca three time periods plus the present or you have a present from when I started writing so that's a little while ago now, but yeah, so there's, there's three time periods. There's the time period that, and I think of the, I think of the people I'm writing about his characters at this point, even, even though it's, it is nonfiction. So there's the narrator, which would be me there's my father as he's dying and then there's his best friend before he's died, where he's been killed. And so there's like 2000. 2003 is 2004 is 2017 ish and then 1937. So three time periods. Yeah. Yeah, and, and I think, I think, I think it's completely, you know, I mean, remember, we're in a we're in an age where we, we multitask, you know, Rebecca, we, we is, you know, we have a lot of multiple screens going. You know what I mean. Maybe as a species can handle that sort of thing. I think if you connect it story wise, you'll make it more enjoyable for the reader. You know if their stories, I mean it sounds like these stories have something to do with each other. If you make it like they don't have anything to do with each other than it might be a little more difficult. Because they have their interconnected. Then time, the different time periods while very important is not something that's going to keep us from getting into the story at all. It doesn't sound like these people know each other. They're you and your father related to each other by either blood or, or, you know, friendship. So I think the time period isn't going to make it more difficult. I don't think so at all. This is my opinion, but you know, and I think certainly there's a lot of fiction that, you know, does that a lot. So I think I think it's totally sounds great. It encourages and congratulations for for finishing. Yeah, well I gave myself a deadline finally and there you go. Nothing like a deadline for finishing. Good for you. Thank you. I'll let you know how it goes. Yeah, well done. So how many. When are you going to be finished. It should actually so by finished I mean a second, a good second draft that I can send out for people to read. Probably the end of next week. Fantastic. Yeah, good job. Congratulations, congratulations. We're all very proud of you that we're, we're part of your squad. That's excellent. All around the world you have big squad. Congratulations, Rebecca really well done. Congrats, Rebecca. Thanks for being here. Alright, up next we've got Julian. Go for it Julian. Hey Julian with another fabulous background. You look like you're on the Simpsons today man. I am. It is the Simpsons. Fantastic. How are you? Well, happy to see you man. I have a quick question. I'm writing, I'm trying to write a memory play for the very first time, or my spin on the memory play. And I'm wondering if you have any tips or ideas on how to sort of jog old memories that are like deep within the subconscious of some sort. Is there how do you bring that to the to the front? Like your memories, your personal memories. I'm trying to think back of a time and I'm trying to remember sort of what happened, but I'm trying to also not skew it with, because there's that old, that whole idea that you can't ever really remember something you only remember the last time you remembered it. I'm trying to get at the core of it and not just try and remember a memory with my judgment or perspective, as I am now, rather than before. Do you, is there anything that you do do you do anything like that or is there a way to like, you know, my imagination, my imagination muscle, or as my son says, my imagination is so strong that memory imagine, you know, you know, I remember something but who knows when I am fabricating. Do you know what I mean? So I'm not, I'm not, you know, you're very, what do you call it, you know, you're a purist, Julian. I'm not, I'm like a fabricator and if I go into the memory vault and I remember it in a way that I remember it, that's how I'm remembering it. The purity of the experience is, I'm not as interested in that. So I don't have any, any, any, any tricks up. You can't, it's like, it's like, what were you like when you were five, you know, to start ripping your skin off. You know what I'm saying? Peeling your skin away Julian, and seeing if you can get to that, that person you were when you were five. Or maybe what was the paint like the first layer of paint on the wall and you know I mean that that that you might find but I think the memory. Let's see. There was the thing as it happened but then the layers of remembering I think are part of it. Right. And do not, should not be dismissed as simply some time or some, you know, viewpoint from time. I think that's a part of it. So I think that that you can ask yourself, am I, maybe as you remember it, am I trying to hide something from myself. You know, is this really how it happened but I, I don't think you need to like start scolding yourself for not being able to see it as it really happened when you were five years old or seven years old or whatever. Okay, cool. You know, Yeah, that's helpful. Yeah, yeah, so be gentle with yourself. That's the other thing, you know, be kind to yourself. Memories are are precious things and I mean, I'm not and I'm not saying lie, you know, make up shit and just start lying I'm not suggesting that but I am saying that if you remember some, yeah that's how it happened when I was five that's close enough. Yeah. You know, That's great. Someone else might have another answer but that's my yeah. Thanks Julian, nice to see you. Yeah and the Simpsons that's really great. Maria, the devil's interval everybody. Oh, Maria, the Simpsons, the devil's interval just so you know. No. Oh yeah. Wow. Serena, you're up next. Hi. Hi, Serena. How are you. So I had a question about writing outside of your comfort zone. I feel most comfortable writing plays which I'm still figuring out, but I'm just curious. I have an idea for another concept and I'm not sure if it's going to fit into a play and since you've written books and TV and different genres, how do you know you're like the medium for your idea. Yeah, that's good. Can you see it? Can you see your idea? Can you kind of get a glimpse of it? Yeah, I feel like it's more of a film than a play. And it probably is. You know what I mean, if I start seeing an idea and it's like on a big screen with like landscapes and everything that it's probably a movie. Okay, you know what I mean. This could be a TV show. TV shows come to me in like segments, you know. But if it's a big landscaping kind of thing, it's probably a movie. If you feel like it's probably a movie then it probably is. Okay. And so I guess then writing out of that comfort zone. Why are you not comfortable writing movies? I guess I've always just written plays. So understanding that format and. Right, right. This is what lore, this is the same thing the lore lore. We, why put that trip on yourself yo. Yeah, you know what I mean that it's your comfort zone, you know what I'm saying, I mean, it's just new. It's just different. It might be in your comfort zone, it might be, why can't it be in your comfort zone, you know what I'm saying. It's just, it's just new. So what's great about something being new is you can approach it with beginner's mind and you can approach it with a certain amount of enthusiasm and you can maybe, I don't know, there's some books out there I think you know about how to write a screenplay. Yeah, maybe you have one already. And they're fun. And your screenplay can be, you know, if you wanted Hollywood style 120 pages, you know, certain things happen, certain act breaks and things like that which make it fun to write. Mm hmm. Okay, no dive in enjoy your enjoy yourself it's like a, you know you don't have to lay a trip on yourself about how it's going to be difficult or uncomfortable. Yeah, no definitely. And I think a follow up to that I also wanted to try to write more comedy, and it's also something that I feel like I'm blocking myself because I'm just don't write that way, or have it at least. All right, why do you want to write more comedy. I just a lot of jokes. Some of my plays have no not jokes but like dark comedy like a lot of my plays have that kind of undertone and I've heard like oh this, a lot of commentary I've gotten was like, oh that play is really funny it wasn't intended to be, but I kind of wanted to explore that a little bit more. So, yes, I don't know. You have permission you can make yourself a couple of cards. Yeah, if you have like in do you have any index cards. Yeah, great. Yeah, so you got some index cards are they are they large. Let me see if I can. Are they like big like this, not that big like half of that size. Great. Okay great. What color are they the white or they color for white. Great. Okay, so take two of them. And write yourself a couple of cards so like do you have a driver's license. I do. Great. Okay, fantastic. So you got these two cards and one card is says you have this this here by gives me permission to write a screenplay. If I feel like it. I stick it somewhere where you can see it and maybe decorate it a little bit. Make it fun. And then you have the other index card this I hereby give myself permission to write comedy whatever that means I don't know. Yeah, lean into my dark comedy thing that I really want to explore and decorate that one and put it up somewhere on the wall, or put it in your pocket or your purse or your backpack or whatever. But you need permission. It's, it's you're allowed. If you want to. Yeah, you're allowed. You know what I mean, sounds weird. I know it sounds weird. No, no, that's cool that that's all you don't have to necessarily or you can go to an expensive university and get an education and get a diploma that's going to save and then some professor. And I feel certified to do it in dollars later we'll say yes, Serena, you can go ahead and you can just take it for free right now. Go ahead and do it. Right. I don't have a degree in writing. But I have a lot of permission slips I decorate my room. You know, well now I'm going to try that. Thank you. It sounds like you have it in you. Yeah, and if you have it in you then let it out. Thank you. You're welcome. Yeah, thanks for that. Spouses every day Audrey. No, you're up next. Go for it. So I have a question that's kind of similar and that cards idea really helped it's kind of a question about like giving myself permission to write. Because as a new writer, I'm not like a new reader at all. So I, I know that I have, you know, the capability to write and I do want to write but I also I keep holding myself back so I was wondering if you have any other tips, besides for the card idea which I want to try. And just about letting myself write what I want to write but also because I, you know, obviously we've all want to write something that's good and worth reading, but holding back from, you know, like, obviously it's not going to be right on the first draft but you know just letting yourself like write those first drafts like how do you, how do you do that. That's a great question. First of all, again we don't know if it's going to be right on the first draft or not. So don't lay that on yourself, like, I'm not gonna get it right on the fridge. Who knows who knows right. Okay you know so you're going to allow yourself to write I would say again, you know this timer thing, or the bar. If you allow yourself to write for, let's just say, five minutes a day. Can you think you can do that is that does that sound management. Okay, I'm just, I'm just saying we're lowering the bar. Okay, so five minutes a day in your, you have a notebook. Can you journal or would you like to write on a specific topic, which would you prefer. I mean I do journal a lot like usually every day right like a page, but it's very like stream of consciousness and I want to try try writing more you know fiction and like fully formed pieces. Great. Okay, great. So why don't you write five minutes a day along the line of some story. Okay, you'll go ahead ask. Um, but I, I have trouble like separating that from the writing that I already do which is very like natural kind of writing, like when I start trying to write anything that's like fiction or what I have the idea in my head of being like proper writing, like immediately the expectations go like way high and then I'm just like, you know I can't do it. I understood that's why we're going to give you only five minutes. Okay, so you're going to start it's like if you are you a marathon runner. No, great. That's great. So if you were going to run the New York City marathon. 2021. Right. Yeah, and you said I want to start out training for the marathon I wouldn't say great Noah go out and run 28 miles or 30 miles and get back to me and tell me how it was right. Well, go out and want to run for 10 minutes. And if you have to walk a little bit, you know walk a little bit and go back to running and walk a little bit and do that for 10 minutes and come back inside and we'll talk about it right. So this is what we're going to do. We're going to ask you since you already journal, get a timer and I would again I am so big on these kinds of timers look I have so many of them. I have tons of them. They're only timers, they're not your phone. Yeah, they don't have your news feed they don't have your Facebook thing going on whatever the fuck someone's getting in touch with me. Oh my goodness, you know what I mean. They're just timers five minutes. You're going to sit down and you're going to start writing the story now. I don't know what kind of story you want to write. But imagine it's, you can start with once upon a time there was a just start writing the story five once the timer goes off Noah you stop. Okay, and do you recommend like, should I just only do those five minutes or like think about like plotting it out beforehand and editing it also just try your five minutes. Try it every day. Just see what it's like if you maybe want to come back to say oh well that was kind of fun maybe before dinner I'll try five more minutes. Just try five minutes again it's a imagine your training for a marathon. Okay, I like that image. Just it's not it's very modest. We're not asking for your right in a war and peace or you know what I mean, we're just asking you to write a simple story. Put five minutes at least five minutes into it every day in your notebook. Okay. Okay, I'm just kind of right. Just, just inch along. And if that makes you your chest tighter you try two minutes. And if that's really gives you a lot of anxiety and pain, try one minute. Okay, just gently, gently progress along a man again imagine your training for a marathon. Go out and run one mile if that's too much run a half a mile if that's too much run 20 feet slowly, it will build up you will get better, you will you'll get better you just will if you put in the time. You know that case they say in the in the bog of a get to know effort is ever wasted. Rebecca shaking her head because Rebecca knows she was working on that project for a couple years now. And she's almost at her finish line. She gonna cross her finish line next week and it was not easy what she was writing what she is writing. Okay. Thank you so much. Okay and keep coming back here we're going to be here every day. Be here like five days a week. I don't got nothing better to do, except talk to y'all so come on. Thank you. Okay, thank you. All right, but next we have Devin and we've got about 10 minutes or actually eight minutes left. Go right Devin. Hi, I, this is so wonderful I'm in Los Angeles. Greetings to all of you. And it feels like the doctor is in, you're like a writing doctor so grateful that I get to have my four minutes with the right. Thank you so much. So, I spoke I asked a question last week and I'm very zoom shy I don't really like talking to this little green dot but here we are. So I'm grateful. So, I've been working on a memoir for something that happened 12 years ago, I've been working on it for six years. Now, I do other things. You know, I teach, I, you know, I'm a mother, I do other stuff. So it isn't the only thing I've been doing but honestly, I can't believe how long this has taken me. And honestly, a part of myself is like, you know, you just have to live in that story. A part of me is sort of in, like you talked about marathon and running I mean I'm, I've been like in mile 24, it feels like for about a year and a half mile 24. I'm just feeling a compound frustration, shame, impatience and I just thought I'd share that. If the doctor has any words in response I'd be so grateful. Welcome to the club. I mean I think I think that feeling like you're stuck in mile whatever three mile 24 mile 48 and like Jesus, feeling like, you know, if I were a legit artist, it'd be easier. You know right, that's something that's some bullshit somebody made up to make the rest of us feel bad. I don't know any writer and I know all the fancy writers, you know, and all the fancy filmmakers all these fancy as people, none of them have an easy time. They're all struggling. Everybody is struggling. It's just when they do the press junk is that they make it sound great yes I came up with an idea in the bathtub and bone there was. I mean, it's, everybody is struggling. We're all struggling. So welcome to the club. We're all struggling. Not that we, not that we bring it on ourselves and say, if I'm a real writer I have to struggle we're not saying that but we find that sure it there is some, some effort involved, perhaps some difficulty. You know in unexpected places, because we're doing other things because we're moms or parents or we have day jobs or night jobs or whatever. Or because what we're wrestling with or trying to untangle is tangled and untangling things might be difficult. It might be easy sometimes. You know, but it does require effort. Not that we wish difficulty on each other. But when we have difficulty we bring it to the table and we don't need to feel ashamed. Yeah. Yeah, part of the tribe, Devin. You know, create it creative act, the live the lot the act of living can be difficult. You know, we wouldn't wish difficulty on each other right. Yeah. But I mean just think of the act of living you're a mom you know it is shit. You are you homeschooling now. No, because one is married. Oh good. I don't have to homeschool him anymore. The wife is doing that now I guess. The other is that he's he's goes to Carnegie Mellon but he's here right now. Okay, okay. So he's taking like differential equations at six in the morning. Yeah, so very cool. But just know that I mean, you're in mile 24 and you know just just keep inching along. Yeah, you know and sometimes the going is slow. And sometimes the going is fast. Thank you very much doctor. Dr. Park, thank you. Thank you. Yeah, I got three minutes left from that. Let's see. Chazelle. Um, I'm going to show you what I made. Oh, oh no. Oh God. It's a wow your background is. Look at that. That is very interesting. Your background takes over. Yeah, that's very weird. Anyway, I gave myself a permission slip and I wanted to. What does it say. I gave myself a permission to write a TV series. It's in me and I let it out. That's flowers and smiley faces. There you go. Flowers and smiley faces are really good. That's fantastic. Look at you. So my question is, I've, in addition to writing this TV series, I'm also writing a children's book. I think I'm at a point, I'm writing the pitch to the publishing agency. But I feel like I've been working on it for about a year. And I really want to just push it out. Like I just, I want to get, I want to be done with the project. And, um, But now I'm like, okay, I don't see it's, I don't see how it is relevant now. It's, um, it's a book about dreams being adventures and how dreams don't have to be scary. And just like all the possibilities and worlds that you can participate in and visit in dreams. But now that we're in this quarantine, and I just feel like, um, it's not, it might be tone deaf, maybe, where it's not speaking to the current time. And I'm just wondering what your thoughts are and like sending this work out to an agency when maybe it's not completely like thinking about it wasn't written during this time. Right. So so much wasn't written during this time. If Giselle, I mean, if that's your excuse for not finishing your book, you got to come up with a better excuse. You know what I'm saying, you know, so why don't you finish your book. Why don't you send it out and if no publisher likes it, then fuck them. Who the fuck cares. Right. If they're all going to hate your book, because it wasn't written during this time. We've only been in this time since like January or December if you read, you know, the news feeds, you know what I'm saying. So if they're going to hate on your book because it wasn't written during this time, or it doesn't have something to do with the pandemic. I mean, Jesus fucking Christ, they can get over themselves right. But if it's going to make you stop writing your book, because you don't think you think that the only things that should be read during this time are things that have to do with the pandemic. I'm like, do we have to read stuff about the pandemic? We're living it. You know what I'm saying, we don't necessarily have to read stuff about a pandemic. We are living a pandemic. So maybe what you're writing about dreams and all that kind of stuff might be exactly what we need. Who knows what you need to do is you need to finish your book and stop making excuses. Right. Finish your book. Don't make excuses to no excuses. And if it wasn't, don't make it the pandemic's fault. If it wasn't a poor pandemic, poor pandemic COVID is like, shit, this all ain't my fault. You're blaming you not finishing your book on me. I'm just a little virus trying to make my way. You see what I'm saying? Don't blame it on COVID. Blame it on you. You just don't want to finish your book. You're using that as an excuse. Okay. Blame it on COVID. Blame it on, right? If because it wasn't COVID, it would be like your mom. My mom wouldn't approve of my book. Should I finish it? You know what I'm saying? Or my Aunt Jane would not like my story, right? I mean, it would be something. Just realize that. Yeah. Go ahead and finish your book. Send it out. And if nobody likes it, that's okay. Write your next one. Cool. Be proud to finish your book. And it's very exciting. You're almost done. And you want to finish it. Don't let nothing stop you. Go ahead and finish it. Be proud of yourself and use the energy of bringing something to the finish line, right, to power yourself into your next project. Because finishing that book is going to give you a lot of energy when you start writing your TV series. Yeah, definitely. Right. Because you will have shown that you can run the marathon across the finish line. Yeah, that feels really important. Yeah. I'm tired of being stuck in all these different projects at one. Right. So get unstuck. And the way you get unstuck is just to pull your ass across finish line. COVID or no COVID. Unless you're sick and in the hospital and all that, that's different, but you're not. I don't think unless that background is, you know, I'm doing well. There you go. So knock on wood and use your health and be grateful for your health. I've finished your, your dang book already. Yes. Yeah. Amen to that. All right. Thanks. Thanks, Giselle. All right. It's six or two. We're coming back tomorrow. We're coming back tomorrow. That's right. We'll see you here at three PM. You can sign up by three PM Eastern time every single day on the public theater website. And I will send you a link between three and four 30 PM Eastern time. And we'll see you here tomorrow. Thank you. Thank you everybody. Thank you everybody. Love you.