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Hey, it was fun because so now we're gonna do the dialogue part of the play with some commentary first because it was fun because I looked up and started watching you all working and it's very beautiful actually so there's one thing you should know about yourselves that you might not know because when you're working you're working right you don't get to watch but I was watching you and you're all very beautiful there's like a like a glow each of you had like this glow like that so you know on those days when it doesn't feel fun or good or interesting or worthwhile or whatever know that you're all very gorgeous when you're working your muses you know they show up to me they sprinkle the dust if anyone also another thing if anyone ever wonders if these thermos really work they really do because it's so hot I can't drink it okay so now we're gonna do the dialogue apart it's a question about me okay I have a here's a way to answer do you use you actually just have you typed you were working on a computer specifically would plug a Mac right and do you work on or like one like the Facebook cool guy that's very cool so you find it doesn't help to switch sometimes writers find that it's helpful to sometimes work on typewriter sometimes you also saw in my little kitty tote bag some cards paper it's like cross-training I was reading recently cross training wasn't really popular 20 25 years ago lots of different athletes with one of them Martina never had a lover who was a great great tennis player realized like hey you know I need to work on my different skills and so she started doing not just getting on the court and hitting the tennis ball but she would do other things to get her in shape so I feel like it's kind of like that's a little bit like doing different kinds of things but it's not necessary this is what I like yes sir and they're talking while they're working but we're talking about how he's an actor as he's now also writing he's working on so go wow I gave birth to these birds so I have to own them a little bit differently it is scary but it's funny just so you know other writers who have been writing for longer fear never really goes away I mean afraid anymore because the fear kind of most often with most writers lingers you know it lingers if we could ask Karen just ask them to be question oh you did so we ought to yell but so the fear fear is something that's there it's kind of a you know if you're in a car and you're a writer fear is going to be one of the people in the car no big deal though it's all writers all artists have it prize winning writers not prize winning writers you know just like you sometimes you might hear a famous actors getting states right I hear Bruce Springsteen get this throws up before show oh I can't go on you know and then he goes on and oh my god the boss right even the boss so so but thank you and the idea is you keep coming keep showing up to the work you know and learn how to at least stand up to what you're afraid of so that's the idea thank you oh yes sir I've been working on this play for the last year and I think I'm kind of close to the end now but I'm sort of at this point where every time I look over again this new thing is between a new thing that's going around I'm wondering if you had any issues of what knowing would like to start yeah do you have any of those issues sure sure what's your name I forgot to ask you Roger from where Mike Mike from Brooklyn so Mike is talking about he's been working on a play for a year and he's at the end pretty much and every time he rereads it's like oh shoot there's so many things I gotta work on still right so what do we do do we continue working on it for the next 80 years and never really turning in so there's so I've said this many times Carter Parker but you know what's that wonderful play Cat on a Hot Sun Roof you know Brick there's a character in there you know and he says I drink until I hear the click so you're listening for the click listening for that click right and you have to feel it's enough or be brave and deal with some maybe a fear of just letting it go and it off to your wonderful team you know I'll be able to work on it in rehearsal or I'll have a reading of it with my friends and they'll take it from there so I really appreciate that you're asking that question because a lot of times writers were so eager to hand off when a short story or a song or a novel or a play we hand it off and it's not really done yet our director or our actors will help us write it which I think is it's one way of working somewhere I like to feel that I've pretty much got the story of answering some major questions what do the characters want basic things like that what's the story what's the shape of the story what do my characters want who are they where are they going where do they end up am I satisfied and then I can't tell it doesn't have to be perfect so not to worry I'm having a workshop starting tomorrow tomorrow yes of my new play it's not perfect we'll sort it out maybe they won't kick me maybe they might know karate so I can kick back really hard like that give yourself a deadline maybe like I don't know what to give them for you when you want to give them I'd love to say two weeks but I would say that for like two months well say it you mean it two weeks from now what's today 15th great and so two weeks from now is what's two weeks from now let's make it official the 29th the 29th it's Wednesday yeah maybe you can come back if we're here I'm not sure if we're here and watch more of our 29th you can come back like and go and do it like a dance because you'll be finished just set your logic and just say I'm going to be done and stop that's one way you know and then your muse the beautiful halo creature that I saw I swear hanging over your head while you were working it's going to say great Mike we're done we're going to turn it in you got people to turn it into great though two weeks alright hold you to anybody else respect I stopped writing about well years ago I had something happen life changes people dying so the other day I was teaching I teach a class and I decided that I just made up at that moment and I heard my voice and so I'm glad I came here because I heard it and then I didn't do anything I screamed to a stunt and so this thing I was listening to do and just realizing that just stepping out of that place whatever for me that dark place that I had to step out of it and in this process and it's it's strange so this has been lovely to sit for 45 minutes I'm so glad so what's your name? Stephanie Stephanie, might you come back Stephanie? I'm not here all the time I live between here and Baltimore we're online we stream online Drew where how can you find someone if you follow us on Twitter we tweet the link it's a live stream link and you can from your home in Baltimore you say Stephanie you can turn it along and just sit back there and there we will be working and you can even tweet in questions that you have so you're always here you know what I mean so yeah but sometimes that happens Stephanie says she's a writer she stopped writing for many different reasons she's been here forever years ago and now she's coming back and I think it's really important to keep showing up for you so maybe you find a time during the day maybe are you a morning person or a night person so set aside some time you probably have a lot of extruder in the day set aside a little bit of time every morning to devote to your writing whether it's 30 minutes 45 minutes whatever try to tune in to watch your work do you read online? definitely put the time in like every day I never know even if it's like 30 minutes or 15 minutes I know you're right 15 it makes such a difference 15 minutes makes such a difference I do a yoga practice and it takes 2 hours a day but they say if you don't have 2 hours all you need to do are like 5 poses which take 15 minutes that's all you need to do and then it accumulates like compounded interest like a bank account you all have bank accounts you put like a dollar if you put a dollar a day in or $5 a month or something it accumulates it's really nice I'm ready with the person who wrote I Am Mormon and she totally stopped singing years later and she heard her voice wow she heard her voice and now she was appearing at Clumsy whatever she knows it's really cool sometimes during our life sometimes you can't hear your voice there's not going to lose you know if you ever start talking you can begin to hear your voice you can actually hear your voice and sometimes you lose that and it's all going you don't have that thing and she sounded great and you as well yes sir I find that I too often block myself with getting confused about process finding the one that's most comfortable for me right now I'm sort of working on a short film script and do I just write it or do I outline it or do I character backgrounds and all this kind of stuff and I've been trying to just sort of write through it but I still find myself spinning on because starting for me is always the hardest part and starting every day sitting down and starting I know that there's no one right way for everybody even as you were talking at the beginning but the same goes true I was wondering if you saw like 7 voices of me not being like good voices but good muses but all just like say no work on this idea I've just been really as with this question kind of confused about it what's your name Erin A-A-R-O-N where are you from that's a great question that Erin has how do I start what's a good way to start do I outline do I do character do I dialogue with my characters do I have a conversation with them or do I just jump in and write couple things you want to choose the way that might work best for you if you don't know that way you have to think maybe if you're in a car and you say we're in New York and you want to go where you just want to drive no I want to go to Santa Monica so you get a map out what's going to make you the most comfortable so you have to choose so you have choices you can outline it you can talk to the characters or you can just jump in and write because you're asking a question my guess is that you would be more comfortable doing a little bit of free writing before you write doing dates before you you want to feel comfortable you want to stick your toe in there's nothing wrong with that sticking your toe in what you need to do is set a time limit we're going to set a time we're going to keep your deadline so if you want to outline how long would you want to outline just look right at a plot plot summary how long would you give yourself Erin what do you think maybe even just like an hour just an hour why don't you give yourself a week or a week I'm being generous you wake up every morning you're going to be writing and for maybe an hour you can use cards you can use just typing it on a computer or whatever just a little sketch then this happens and you spend about an hour or a day for a week that's your deadline then you're going to write you will have done the prep work like a gardener you're going to tilt the soil and fertilize it so give yourself that and see how that feels I think you have to allow yourself to be okay with being uncomfortable a lot of times we're uncomfortable we think that's bad a real writer shouldn't be uncomfortable a real writer should just be Erin or sometimes I just jump stick to one project when you want to be finished with this short film that you're writing three weeks so you're going to outline for a week you're going to write for two weeks then you're going to be done so three weeks from today so what's three weeks from today it's going to be June June 5th June 5th, that's your deadline we're going to hold you to it like tweet in or come back and visit us and tell you that's how you're done that's your deadline, you're done you write the end, you're done it doesn't have to be completely ready for Steven Spielberg to direct but you're done so one week to outline two weeks to write that's it okay we have to relinquish we have to relinquish a feed so that we're not online so we don't have to be online anybody else have any burning questions you won't have them online anybody have painful moments okay buy online okay so we can go so come back next week thank you so much