Dave Eggers

I mean, then I have to get up and there's no bathroom, so I got to bike.

around this bay to the port-a-potty on the other side of the bay, which is not a long bike, but that gets me out and about.

I always had trouble with being indoors all day part of riding.

This gets me outside.

It's far prettier.

And I don't have any possibility of any interruption.

Nobody knows I'm there.

The first couple hours are journaling for procrastination.

So I always have to spend two hours wasting time.

And that's usually just writing.

A little bit of both, but often just the same device.

And I pretend to write.

I'm sitting in the writing position.

You've got to do that for eight hours a day for me to get maybe an hour or two hours of work done.

I see.

I waste a lot of time.

You need that time and that space.

Yeah, and then there is always that thing where...

Sometimes you're really composing, you're trying to get something done that day, or you've given yourself a crazy deadline because you're angry at wasting all that time.

You're like, God damn it, just give me the, you know, let me finish this chapter.