Kiara Alegría Hudes
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Yeah, you know, there is this saying, you know, if you stare directly at the sun, you'll go blind.
Writing is not problem solving.
If you try to solve a problem in writing, you'll have solved the problem.
But will you have made the piece more artful?
Not necessarily.
So that's why things need to breathe.
It's like, OK, now we know, you know, there's a family problem.
argument in the Heights that we worked on forever.
Nina comes home and she's got big bad news to deliver to her parents.
She's really, really struggling as a first-generation college student.
And she knows her parents are not going to fathom the struggle.
They're just like...
And she's like, it's a whole different beast out there, guys.
Now, that was a song.
That was a different song.
That was a scene.
It was a different scene.
It took so many tries to kind of.
get that moment dramatically right.
But that doesn't mean that therefore for two months in a row, we were just working on that every day.