Kiara Alegría Hudes

We've worked together for long enough.

I'm like, he's already got a hook in his head.

And a few minutes later, he's jotted down or thumbed these words into his notes app in his phone.

Own drum.

Ho hum.

And I'm giving him some more language.

Well, here's a monologue she might say about taking the school bus home.

You know, a whole big monologue he takes home.

three syllables from that and it becomes I get my own seed on the bus so it's it's really like a hacky sack game come over and play and let's do hacky sack and what's what we're going to keep in the air is the ideas the word the energy of a scene let's hear an excerpt from that song my own drum from the soundtrack of the 2021 animated film vivo

No.

I don't remember a single time, to be honest.

If we're feeling like something's not working, we just are kind of like, hmm, okay, noticed.

And I've found with writing, identifying that something is not quite working, is not quite firing on all cylinders, is very different.

It's almost a separate act from remedying that.

One does not follow the other necessarily.

So it's just kind of like, okay, let's put a sticky note on that one and let's keep working.

And then maybe we'll come up with an idea in a roundabout way.

So very little ego.

When I'm working alone on a play or on my books –

That's where I'm warring with myself much more actively no no no it can't be this it has to be that it can't be this it has to be that and so I think that my pieces I've created on my own have a kind of tension that reflects those internal battles as I'm writing a little bit more clearly and the lightness of the pieces that I've written with Lynn probably does reflect a little bit of our working process together.