Writing Is My Primary Way Of Expressing

I Feel Like My Life Is At Its Happiest When I Don't Have A Looming Deadline. There's Some Really Groovy Wonderful Times, When I'm Like, "i Have A New Piece, I'm Excited About It, I'm Reading All These Books About It, But There's Not A Lot Of Time Pressure, And I'm Financially Stable Enough Right Now That I Don't Have To Be Trying To Get Another Job." But That's So Rare.

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 Ended Up Becoming A Playwright Because You Can Be Grammatically Incorrect: People Speaking In Bad Poetry Or People Attempting To Speak Well And Sometimes Succeeding And Sometimes Failing. The Whole Imperfection Of It Suddenly Felt Freeing To Me.

I'm Terrible At Speaking Extemporaneously About My Work - I Get Completely Tongue-tied And Consumed With Fear.

If Anything, I Was The Opposite Of Most College Students Who Think They Can Do Anything.