 What time is it? 6.06 on Lincoln's birthday, free of the ass my sister! You did that enough. Can you show your allegiance to the bullshit that was enslaving you? And now you're free. And you're free. It's 2014. Break the chain, sister. Go for a walk. Cross the list in the next line. You don't have to work. That man no more. Okay? And something better is definitely going to kill him. Anybody else? Now they're free. Oh my God. It's terrifying. You spoke so well. But listen, what happened to me that puked my computer and I was the same way. And everything I wrote for about three to five years was gone. But what it ended up meeting for me is that I began to take my work seriously in a way that I hadn't. Like I used to dabble with the idea of being a playwright and being a storyteller. And it was cute. And I was the only one among my friends that didn't. But I didn't realize how bad it would hurt when all of my ideas were gone. So it's like, feel it. And then just jump. Like, you seem to have already done that. Like you've already jumped into your whatever that game plan is and however that plan is it can't out for you. I don't, I literally can't remember but maybe one thing that I lost out of all of them. So it was three to five years is right. Gone. And there's only one story out of all of those. And that one story I still, you know, I still have. But otherwise I had to be right. And it was in another dialogue. So I had to start from scratch. Because I was so, you know, this story been a lot to me. But it'll, it gets better. And you won't feel this bad for too long. And then you'll just kind of find your rhythm. But it'll, it'll kick, it'll kick your ass and it'll make you really commit to this thing. Because the thing is, if you really want it, this situation can be a really good turning point for you. Because it was today. Oh yeah, absolutely. Not only the community. Good question. Oh, Ellen. Did you see, you just had this one copy and it was handed in? No, no, no. That was a make-believe. That was a make-believe. No, no, no. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm not kidding. Yes. I'm just not kidding. I play now 70% of it. That means anything to me or any way up. And I decided to start workshopping it. Not rehearsals intended towards performance. But really I just wanted to get a small group together. Really flesh it out. Have them help me. Give me the chance to sit back down. Correct them. I'm trying to write a little bit of it now since we have the time. The hardest thing that I don't think matters is when you say it to anybody, I'm writing to play what it's about. It's the damnedest thing to describe something that's not describable. It's kind of like a person in a way. Well, who are you? What are you about? You want to sit here for 20 years and let me tell you I'm a little piece of minutiae? I don't even know what the question is actually right now. But that's definitely something I have. I can't explain it. This speaks badly on it. People demand an explanation. How do you explain something that you feel that is so much in the words and all the little moments there? That's the book is a thread. It's one big thing. So many things are connected by a thread. One thing, who are you going to workshop with? Friends. Friends. Good. These people? No. Not these people specifically? But close friends. Close friends. Good. That's very smart. To talk about your work, it's a skill. It's a skill that you require from practice. Big picture. So like we were saying, when you're writing it, small little picture. Small steps. Word by word by word. I mean, you're talking about your work and you pull away that. And you say, not Fuji. That doesn't explain it. Little tree. I'm not Fuji. But you know that it goes like that. So you just try to talk about the story of your play. I would suggest talk about the story. It's about a person who blah, blah, blah, blah. And in the end, blah, blah, blah. You know what I mean? That's all. Just try to talk about the story. Don't, you know, the issue, or if you're an issues person, go that way. Okay. They didn't go that way. It's about something, something, something. And there's one guy or there's one person who's trying to help. Keep it as big stroke. Big stroke is possible. And by reading it, they'll get to know what you're writing about. That's... But you do want to get into the, develop the skill of saying, people say, what's your play about? A guy who goes to war and comes home. Yeah. Whoa. They come home from the war. It's blah, blah, blah. I don't see it. You know what I mean? But it's guy who goes and comes back. Yeah. There are five other things to go out and play. But that's good enough for me. They seem satisfied. Don't worry about explaining everything. You don't have to. You're doing big picture. Just doing little picture when you're writing. Small steps. When you're talking about big steps. Large steps. Anybody else? Like, is it good ideas about it? Yeah, like, you know... I mean, I really enjoy working with people who spend the majority of their time acting as actors, you know? And, you know, I like to... I think that's what's cool about working in a collaborative art form that I have to actually trust the handoff. I mean, the Olympics are running a relay race. You know? That handoff, that takes like... To do that handoff is amazing. I totally trust the other person that they're going to be competent or more than competent. They're going to be brilliant. But they're going to do their work at great service. I enjoy trusting and practicing that trust. Because I try to control what I can control, which are the words I've made. That's mine. And then I love handing it off to actor. Take it, girl. See what you can do. So, you know, granted, I have been in my own place before. I've been on stage playing music before in my own place. It was fun. I liked it. But, you know, when I get an opportunity to hire a musician and sit back and watch it, I like to hand it off. It's just my personal. But, you know, there are people who do solo shows brilliantly. You know, there are people who write for themselves, who write with themselves in mind. They want to be on stage. You know, they're all kinds of things. But sometimes people want to be in their own place or direct their own plays because they have trust issues. It's a great way to practice working on that. Pat is love. Pat, he has trust issues. It's okay. You know? You know, I mean, they have to... They're scared. Not issues. That sounds weird. But they're afraid. It's okay to be afraid. But unless you really are an actor, actor. At times, I have... I'm just curious to come to my mind. Right? Like, certain scenarios make me see the pictures. Right? Or, like, sometimes when I'm just sitting down, I can see a picture and it's really clear. Right? And the dialogue is really clear. And sometimes it's funny. Sometimes it's dramatic. Right? But I'm wondering about how I might get that down and create a play from those small moments. There are so many of them. Like, I don't think that I could create, like, some huge piece from each one of these plays. They're really significant to me. And I find that each picture is really something that I cherish a lot. Right? You can create a show out of lots of pieces and small pictures. You can do that. Like, have you ever seen... There's a quilt pattern that is called nine-patch. Or you can just, you know, there's not very, very small, you know, or postage stamp quilt patterns. And they're very, very, very tiny things. You know? I run a play day for a whole year. That was a thing. You know what I mean? You could put all the pieces of the things together. That would be fun. If they're meaningful for you, then I would say collect them. Or you can put them down in a notebook and see which ones resonate into something that might be a longer piece. You know? You can do that, too. You can just find a way to write the data and carry around the notebook and just constantly scribbling things down. You know? That's a way to do it and then transcribe them into a document and see which ones resonate for you. You know? Or you can create a longer thing out of it, a little tiny thing. Or you can do... go to a weekly open mic and perform one a week. I mean... It's okay. I can have one cool thing, really. It's okay. But yeah, you know, that would work. You value them because they're meaningful to you. And we're... JB's giving us a sign. Black power. No, I'm sorry. Times up. Black power. Times up. Black power. Black power. Times up. Thank you so much for coming. You guys are great. We'll see you after finals.