Brian Koppelman

I had seven incompletes.

my last semester, my senior year of college.

And I got them done through the help of friends, you know, who like one guy had a first word processor.

So he's like, I'll type for you.

And another guy made the coffee.

Like we were just like, everybody had a sort of set up an environment because no one knew what the ADHD was.

And there was no scaffolding.

There was no sort of like, I had to invent it for myself.

My friends had to help me invent the scaffolding.

That said,

I started doing, David Levine gave me The Artist's Way.

I'd read Tony Robbins' Awaken the Giant Within, which helped me get to this crescendo inside where I realized, okay, I have to make a change.

But I still didn't know how.

And then Dave gave me Julia Cameron's book, The Artist's Way.

And when I started actually doing that program, really doing it chapter by chapter, really writing the morning pages, really going and doing The Artist's Way,

something broke free and it enabled me to finally get past this thing that was holding me back.

But it does happen.

I think, um,

And I think the artist's way works for lots of people, but something else will work for people.

You know, Steve Pressfield's book, War of Art, is so great because he diagnoses resistance, which is his word for this thing that might kind of manifest as a creative block or a writer's block.