David Rosenthal

Yeah.

But it's important that you had the idea, but it's buried in the story some which way.

So the minute you're there, you know it's got to be cut.

Yeah.

Mostly, right?

Yeah.

Our default is always cut.

Always cut.

Yeah.

And so you get five hours down to whatever it is, three and a half, four.

No, no, no.

I mean, I owe a book on June the 1st that will come out September the 29th that I will start writing on January the 5th.

And I will write it in five chunks, and each chunk will be delivered at the end of the month, and I won't be able to go back.

It's a deadline.

Yeah, but I always find once I establish that deadline, which is a reasonable deadline because I've spent a year doing the work, I have the material.

By the way, it's very polite of you to ask me questions about myself.

Are you kidding me?

It's like this great- No, but it's somehow if you take your deadline seriously, that's the key.

You take the deadlines deadly seriously and you just refuse to violate them.

then you're serious when you establish them, and your mind just finishes when it needs to finish.