 Let's do this and then we're going to go about it. Yeah, well, I'll do it too. Yeah, let's start now. So we'll do 20 minutes of work and then we're all done. I'm going to apply for a few 10 minutes of work. Okay? Okay. All right, so we're going to have to work like extra fast out. Okay. Same. Okay, so let's start. Now. And you know, you want to stay like... You get some impacts. In it, it's just fine in a different way. And it's also okay. Right. Yeah, he's working on his play. He's having some difficulty. And because he's written one scene with a lot of characters and now he's on another scene with a lot of characters. And because they all have to be in the same scene, they each take sort of a turn and he says it's kind of like a concerto. It sounds kind of... It sounds complicated. No. It sounds complicated. I'm just trying... You say you're blocked. I mean, the tricky thing is that sometimes work comes easily and sometimes it doesn't come so easily. I mean, I think the fact that you're showing up and you're working, the fact that you're showing up and working is huge. And I think when we're blocked, I think that's the best thing we can do. Even if it doesn't feel so great. Show up with the time. That's so important. Because a lot of times we think, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll wait until I feel good. With, you know what I mean? And, you know, 10 years could go by. Right? I mean, really. And I mean, you guys laugh. And yeah, because you know, you know. I mean, a lifetime. People go, right? So I think the best thing to do is just show up and put the time in. Even if it's just like 30 minutes. You know, even if it's 15 minutes. What's your deadline? Everett's got a deadline. Okay. And so, working down my counting pages, you have to do a day. That's good. Right. So he's got a deadline. He's got people waiting for the play, which puts a... I mean, it's a good question. You kind of got it. You kind of got to get it done. Are you going to feel okay? Are you going to feel okay? Handing it off to them when it's not really done? Okay. Okay. Yeah, it's a different way to write, but as long as you're comfortable handing off a quote, unquote, unfinished, you know, peace to your folks. I mean, you trust these people. They're adoring. They love you. They're supportive. Okay. Well, that could work too, because then they're not going to sit around and... That was nuts. That was that one. I hope everybody's okay with that. So it's a grad school application. So that could work also, because they're not going to sit around and tell you how to fix it. Do you see what I mean? So that's actually okay. As long as you feel okay about it, it's all right handing off something that's not completely baked, you know? So I would just say keep putting the time in. That's the most important thing, you know, because a lot of times we sit around thinking, okay, it sounds like you've gotten over that. You know, you've got to put the, you say five hours in there. Yay. So, I mean, I guess I don't know if it's helpful, but know that you're not alone in the process of having a hard time and just, you know, and what happens is if you just keep putting the time in, you're going to get some, like, wow, that scene works. Oh, that's a mess. Oh, that bit's good. Oh, wow, I figured out that part. You're going to get, like, it's going to be like that? It's hard, but it feels like you're just sitting there. Well, you're not staring at the screen. You're putting in five hours. I mean, are you moving your hands in a keyboard? I would suggest go ahead and just, well, not randomly. Randomly was, well, actually, Durham wasn't randomly typing. He was typing great effort. But I would say, tell the stories the best you can, given how much you know and how much you don't know. So I would say instead of sitting there staring at it, just like when he was learning to walk. Right? I mean, we would have quit. I would have quit. Shit. But you know what I mean? Sometimes it comes to us, you know what I mean? Sometimes it's like perfect. A year. He's going to be like, but now it's like, I mean, I don't laugh at him to his face. But you know what I'm saying? So I think we have to just put the time in. Like, get your hands on the keys or take out your pen or however you write and just go through the motions. And it's going to feel like, have you ever had blood taken where there's an inexperienced, what do they call it? The bottom. The bottom. The bottom. It's right, right, right, right. Okay. So there you are. Hi. And if you're a fox, you're sitting there. Or he is jabbing. You know? Like that. And that's what it feels like. I always think, oh man, that's what it's like. You're just jabbing away. You're trying to find the vein. I got to keep jabbing until I find it. You know? Just that's necessary because the flow will come. It will come. Just what I call a vomic draft will give way to your brain. You just have to put the time in. You have to be willing to not be very good. Sometimes. No, sometimes it's easy. You know? Sometimes it comes in. Okay. Keep showing up from 15th of December. So come back when we're back on the, after Thanksgiving, whatever that Thursday is, come back and visit us and check in. I just want you to put, get some pages. Because when you write it, then you can rewrite it. Okay? And if you think of, try to think of the end points of the scene. Where do you want character A to B at the end of the scene? What do you want him to discover? What do you want character C to discover at the end of the scene? So you get those end points and then make it flow. Flow more effectively. I'm dancing sideways. It's very, very frustrating. Yeah? I mean, I try, I try to dance forward. Like you said. Right. All of a sudden I just started. You didn't just write to me. See? You just have to. You know what I mean? Everything I've ever written. You just, you just hurl yourself. Have you seen, have you ever seen like the Olympics? Yeah. Like the Olympics? No, the Olympics. You know when they go to the finish line? Like that. That's how they do it. Sometimes you just have to throw yourself across the finish line. And then you can make it better. And then you can rewrite. But if you're kind of sitting back there going, well, it seems a hundred-yard dash, you know. Well, the finish line is where you finish telling the story for the moment. They reach something that seems like the end. Right? I mean, we know, we know where the finish line. You know it. It might be different when you do your rewrite. The finish line for now is what you decide on. You have to hurl yourself toward that. You can't sit back. So you just kind of know what's going to see it, but you walk around. You walk around the city. When you walk around during the day, tell yourself the story of your play. I play about a woman or a man. And then the debt. And then the debt. And then this happens. And then this happens. And in the end, this happens. Man, my play is about you do that over. I do that over and over and over. I'm always talking, telling myself the story of my play or my novel or whatever. You know? But you really have to hurl yourself toward it. It is act of courage. You know? You just got to do it. In none of this. Just write it out. Oh, wow. Write the crappiest dialogue. The dumbest resolution. I'm in a contest with me. No one's going to see it. No one's seeing mine. Did anyone see what I wrote today? Oh, stupid. You know? Then it will start to take shape. You know, the primordial slime, you know, where we can believe in that sort of thing, believe that we all came from. What is like, you know, slime was like, well, I don't want to be slime, man. I don't want to come out and step in. You know, I'm going to look good. I'm going to come out like a woman. They won. It was like slime. It's a wonderful, just a wonderful production of 59 East 59th Street with Eileen Akins and Michael Gambon. It's a, it's a reading of a Beckett radio play, but it's staged. But Eileen Akins, and it's, of course, his same themes about death and what sort of, but she was often going like this, just, you know, this, this, this. And that's what it feels like. I'm thinking, oh my God, I understand. You know, this is just, yes. But that's no excuse. Yeah. I saw that in a Beckett play. So like, Beckett didn't do that. He was actually in this. He was throwing himself across the finish line. Yeah. You know, that would, but. No, I didn't mean that. Yeah, I know, I know, I know. I'm just doing it hard time. So we didn't get to do it, like. By the time we come back. Okay. Just, just write the worst, you know, try to. And it is hard. It is a difficult place to go. You don't. When Stacy was like. That's not my. You know, it's not good. And because I'm a. Like, just, just do it. Just go ahead and do it, girl. And she threw herself across the line. And now they have an opportunity to come together. She's got yourself a chance. Right. I know the baby girls. My thing today was a distraction. But I think we're kind of out of time. I really want, I did, but I did want to talk about distraction and how you can, how to get your work done in the midst of, oh my gosh. You know, I've got a busy day or a busy thing going on. Like that. It's amazing how you can actually get your work done even with a lot of distraction. It's actually possible. Conditions for work do not have to be perfect. You know, you just have to be determined. And it's not always going to be possible to be so determined. But just know that it's very possible to get your work done. So we get out of the cycle. Not that any of you have suggested this, but we get out of the thing of blaming. Like, I can't do my work because my spouse wants me to, because my kid, because my job, because, because, because, because, because, because. We get out of that cycle. And we get into the, you know, the sort of rather Malcolm, you know, any means necessary. We got a cup. Hello. We can get this done. Right? Because that's how important it is to get it done. So, and, and I would suggest that, you know, things like fear and worry and writer's block, all those things are really distractions. Just, it's just you telling yourself that you don't know. Or you can't, you can't write until it's perfect. And I have the same issues, you know. That's why I talk about them all the time. But, um, yeah. So, just about distractions. Right. You know how to do it. Yeah. We watch them work downstairs when they were doing the construction and the lobbying. And we were just like, keep on keeping on. And it was almost nice. And that's why I brought it just like, simply, you know, try to throw me off my game. Not unless, you know, we wanted to. Yeah. Okay. Well, um, I'm going to, so I can, uh, shout out, surprise, happy birthday to someone who's turning 70 today. She's very excited. I know someone, I've been gaining, I was impressed. I hope she's not, you know, just trying to, but anyway, we'll see you. Have a happy Thanksgiving. And we'll see you the Thursday after. Thank you. Thank you.