For Early Plays Of Mine, I Started

For Me, Being A Good Creative Writing Teacher Is Actually Kind Of Being A Good Therapist. The Line Is Very Porous - You Can Also Be A Creepy Guru/abusive Therapist, Too, So You Have To Be Very Careful. But It Feels Really Important To Me.

For Me, On Every Project, I Realize That I've Boxed Myself Into A Corner, Or That The Play Necessitates Some Sort Of Theatrical Convention That I Realize I Hate While I'm Making It. So Then The Next Play Is Always A Rebellion. Or Like, The Thing I Didn't Even Realize I Was Doing Last Time I Will Make Sure I Don't Do This Time. But There's Always Some Other Blind Spot. And Then That Blind Spot Inspires The Play That Comes After.

Being Sad And Going Out On Terrible Dates And Having Horrible Breakups And Then Having A Shitty Job And Then Quitting The Shitty Job And Then Wondering If You Shouldn't Have Quit The Shitty Job And Then Getting A New Shitty Job That You Get Fired Off Of After Six Weeks, It's All So Good For Your Writing.

I Feel Like There's An Obsession With Pace Right Now In Theater, With Things Being Very Fast And Very Witty And Very Loud, And I Think We're All So Freaked Out About Theater Keeping Audiences Interested Because Everybody's So Freaked Out About Theater Becoming Irrelevant.

I Feel With Writing, So Much Of The Time, I Don't Know How To Tap In And Be Spontaneous And Alive On A Daily Basis. So I Don't Write Every Day. I'm Just Not Disciplined, And I Can't Be In The Groove Most Of The Time. I Feel Like I'm In The Groove Ten Days A Year Or Something. But With Reading And Research, I Feel Like I Have This Incredibly Instinctive Pleasure-driven Process That Ends Up Working Out For Me And Inspiring Me. It's Almost Like A Maze, Like I Know Eventually I'll Hit The Heart Of My Play If I Read Enough Books.