Dave Eggers

Sometimes there's a real deadline.

But the being in there the whole time, sometimes like hour six, some crazy, crucial breakthrough happens.

Yeah.

just because you were there.

It's not going to happen in a crowded place or at dinner.

It's going to happen because you gave yourself that big, huge expanse of time.

I play music the entire time I work, so maybe something triggers it in the music.

Maybe I procrastinate by reading a little bit and something breaks through there.

I wish it were different, and I wish I could be like one of these people that writes for an hour and a half a day and gets enough work done.

I have never been able to do it.

I need the entire expanse.

Those days, I don't answer the phone, I don't do lunch, I don't see anybody.

And at this point, I guess it's not gonna change.

No.

No, I mean, but you do feel like

And this goes for a lot of writers.

If you haven't done anything, if you haven't written anything, if you have gotten nothing down, but you've pushed away your family and everything else to have that isolation, you've said no to some friend visiting from out of town, all of this stuff, because you just got it.

And then if you don't get anything done, you just want to punch yourself in the face like all night.

So it makes it all the more reason why trying to honor that time

And maybe there's, you know, kind of a, there's a sense of guilt too.