 It's going to snow this thing, for a winter mix. I know that people are smiling. I know that people are smiling. I know that people are smiling. There's a man on 12th Street whose last name is Durand. He's a superman on the 12th Street, between 1st Avenue and Avenue A where my son was a baker. And, you know, his job is to shovel pretty much the entire block. That's his, you know, that's his watch for work. I see him working, he's shoveling. And today he was like, I'm not going to say nothing. He was just out of his mind because he's coming out. He has to start at 1st Avenue and go all the way to Avenue A with his shovel. So, yeah, watch me work. I watch him and I think, oh man. So I call him Mr. Durand because he deserves the title of Mr. Because, you know, because if he doesn't shovel, people like me and the ladies with the strollers, we can't get down the street. So I feel very fortunate that we should deal with him. We're going to do, you know, we shovel our own shit. I know, right? We shovel our own poo-poo. But he's, you know, yeah. So this is watch me work. And what we're going to do, this is a play in which we create the action and the dialogue together. And the first thing we're going to do is create the action, which is 45 minutes of working on whatever you want. And then we're going to create the dialogue, which is Q&A between you and me about your work and your creative process. That's gesture. Your work and your creative process. And those of you out in the interwebs who are warm and cozy and dry, Pat is going to tell us how you work. He's going to tell us. We're going to send you your tweets. At watch me work SLP with the hashtag new, watch me work SLP with the hashtag new play. At watch me work SLP with hashtag new play. Right, and you can tweet this and we will answer your questions and now we're going to work anything ever again. This is the last one before we take a little bit of a break, you know. So if you have any questions, people's go ahead and ask them because there's a couple weeks after this I'll be in person. So here we go. I'm going to be, I don't know what I'm going to do. On the show. Recipes. Great. Some more James Brownland. It's available. Why are you sorry? This is not a library. The library is open to restaurant. Even the library is not a library. It's great actually to hear it. When I hear it, I know what you do. It's something that's very, very important. Anybody have any? No, these people. Who are all y'all? All at once. Where are you from? You're from Detroit. Are you going to stay? Well, we live here now. Oh, you live here? Ways. Welcome. So many of us have. I was reading something there about how there are no street lights in some neighborhoods. I mean, so you can go home and be the light when your family snows. You can bring a flashlight. And it's awesome. I think it's so happy. They're in the, they're in the, you know, stage one. We're here in New York. It's green. Right? I'm sorry. I stole that save from Heidi. It was the head, one of the heads of casting. And I saw her just before the show today. And I said, oh, thank you so much for my actors. Can I go to rehearsal next week? She's like, hi, we're in stage one. In a way at last, always. And it actually does, right? Those of us who've been here a little while, in a little while. The last, right? Right? So you came from somewhere? From, from the show. I think you did. Charlotte. Charlotte. Yeah, Charlotte. See, and she's happy. Queens City. Queens City. We love the Queens City. Well, never mind. It's a good song. Good song. I'm not gonna lie. Anybody have any questions? Yes? Hi. Welcome back. Anybody? Yeah. Yes. What's your name? Crystal. Hi, Crystal. Welcome back, Crystal. You live in New Jersey? Uh-huh. You go. You better. Yeah. You kid. Not a while. Oh, wow. Oh, wow. Yeah, okay. So, Crystal, when last she was here, was working really hard. We had a talk on the sidewalk. And I said, go, girl, go. You can do it. And then, and then, yeah, well, you know, we all did that. And then, as we started. So you lost a lot of the stuff. And you lost everything. Even, you can't remember any of it. Yeah. Yeah. So you lost. Just this time on the play that you were working on, you lost what you had. Yeah. That play. And now you wonder if it's a sign from a snow god. Like, you should give it up. What do you think? Before we're saying that you should let it go and get excited about something else? No, this is like a summer play. And so this would be another thing. Right. Right, right, right. And then you lost it. Right. I mean, I wouldn't say this. I mean, you could say, you know, you lose, you know, whole play and it's a sign to let it go. I mean, you know, you could say that it might well be. But if you don't take it as that, then it's not. It's how you take it. It's not what happens. It's how you take it, right? So you're deciding that no, no, no, this is something that I really, really want. So you're using the loss, the difficult thing that happened as sort of a way to recommit yourself. No, this is really important to me. After all, after everything is really important to me. Okay. If you want to think of it winning prizes, that's great. If you want to just think of yourself crossing the finish line, that's pretty great too. Okay. It's really time to dig in. And I would say you set yourself a deadline for, you know, the next five pages. We have five pages at a time, you know? But there were a lot of things we talked about. There were a lot of things that you were doing to hold yourself back. Losing your document is something that we do to hold ourselves back, you know? I mean, as much as I admire you and like you and want you to keep coming back, I have to say to everybody that when you lose a document in this day and age, you're sabotaging yourself. You really are. Don't do that. No. I'll bring in Durham. He'll say, don't sabotage yourself. I'll teach you that word beforehand and he'll come in. No. Like that. He'll do that. You go, oh shit, I'm sabotaging myself. You know what I mean? Don't do that. You know, in this day and age, easy ways to store things. You can email it to yourself, right? Just email it to yourself. Email to a friend. You can just write so you have it. You can, you know, all the thumb drives and what nots and the five of those clouds and the, you know, the time machines and the shit we got to back ourselves up, right? Okay, so when you lose something, or let's just say when you lose so much, you trip yourself up. Ask yourself, why am I doing that? You can't find it and there's no reason. So just stop doing it. Because at the end of the day, when you get to be 99 years old, you're going to be like, you know, why? You only got one chance. Even if you believe in reincarnation, you only got one certain black around this track that you're on right now. So why are you going to waste it? Why are you going to waste it? Don't waste your life. Don't waste your talent. You're not wasting your life because you have a beautiful life. This is precious. What do you want to do? At least put the time in. You might not win the Tony or the Grammy or the Emmy or the Obi or Juan Canopia or whatever they got. Excuse me. You know what? You might not want to win those prizes. It doesn't matter. The prizes don't matter. But you owe it to yourself. And that person in your past who told you that you weren't going to do it because that's who we're responding to, all of us, all that negative stuff in your head. It's just somebody back there who told you something negative and you can't shake it. And it probably wasn't even their fault, but they told you something negative because they didn't know you better. So we're not blaming them. It's on you, right? You're not responsible for the first negative thought, but you are responsible for the second one. It's on you. What you're going to do? You got to ask yourself that question, right? You got to ask yourself that question, right? You got everybody. You're at your desk. You're working. You ask yourself, what am I going to do? Right? It's like life and death. People fought and died so you could be sitting in that chair right there. Everybody. Everybody has people who went without. It's great. You know? I walk through the snow. Kerosene, lanterns and shit. I don't know. You know the kerosene and cow? What? Give them milk at whatever store they got. You got some of everybody who has got somebody with the milk and the cow. They put them in the mule, they didn't in the bay and they shipped it. We're very fortunate that you're here today because you allow us to have this conversation. Because we all do it. We're always like stabbing ourselves in the back. We're always doing shit that's going to trip ourselves up. We all do it. You're just here, you're our poster child. You're our spokesman all today. Yeah, hi. Thank you so much for providing us with this opportunity. Can I do something else? So if you back up, you got a time machine, you got a thumb drive, you got an email account. Like Vincent De La Frio in Law and Order, right? The same with crime. He always does that. Crime scene. Don't do that. I'm just trying to make you laugh. I'm just trying to make you terrified. Okay? When you hear someone, I was carrying one copy of my play. It was hand wrinkled. So you owe it to yourself. And those of us who have kids, you don't want to pass that kind of behavior down. Because your kids watch you and they go, ooh. Ooh. I guess it's how to be important for you. It's all about that. So go write your play. Come back. I'm going to be in rehearsal. I haven't seen you for a couple of weeks, but, you know. Okay? Maybe exchange some emails with some people who come here often. Have some little email checking shit going on. Maybe Carol will let you maybe then. It's her ringtone. It's a man's ringtone. Call in. Okay? Right? That's good. Okay. Who else has this? Yeah. I'm just going to keep making this gesture. It's going to communicate more and more. I have to have a character that stands on one foot or else it's not a play. I have to. You have to be a cow in it. I have to. No. I don't have any words. I have to have words, I suppose. I don't have no. They say that knowledge is power. Right? So don't misuse it. Right? Knowledge is power. And it's so powerful it's going to keep you from doing it. That's not what they mean. Right? So you have to do two things. You know it's good, which is great. You know it's good. You know it's good writing. We all know it's good. A good painting is a good song. Whatever. Right? And somehow you have to completely forget what is good and do your work. So it's kind of a, you have to sort of, if the knowledge is centered in your, I know nothing about brains, but if the knowledge, say, is centered in the part of your brain, that's the bush part. Like that, right? The two, whatever. Habs. There's a space between the halves, right? Get in that space. Or there's nothing. Just do your work. Don't think looking up from the pain.