I Think Growing Up In A Small

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 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.

I Was 22 And Stopped Writing Plays, And I Didn't Start Again Until I Was 25. I Was Writing Badly. In College, I Attempted To Write These More Conventional Plays, But The Theater I Loved Was Downtown Experimental Theater. I Didn't Feel Like I Could Do That Either. It Didn't Occur To Me To Do My Own Thing.

I Was Raised By A Single Psychologist Mother And We Spent Every Evening Sitting At The Kitchen Table And Dissecting Our Emotions And Speculating About The Inner Life Of Everyone We Knew.

If I Were Less Lazy, When My Play Was Published, I Would Go And Rewrite Everything For The Reader. But I Don't Do That. What People Are Reading Is Just Me Trying To Get The Actors And Directors To Do Something Or Think About Something.