Twyla Tharp

energized by or just you know you start writing something gets something on the page and bit by bit it becomes a habit and maybe that habit evolves and maybe it doesn't and maybe you give it up and maybe you find that you then you get an idea you find something you keep returning to and it pulls you it it hypnotizes you uh it makes you want to follow it see where it will go to see how it will develop

and then at a certain point it's done, it's played out.

Maybe you can guide that so that it becomes more exciting and you learn how to build as you're going along and you learn how to direct it so that it's going to get to either a surprising end where it has to end and the reader is going to say, I should have seen that, or you're going to say, I should have seen that, or you're going to go, no way, you're a liar, I'm not going to buy this book.

Yeah, because it allows you to think that you could be a writer.

Could be.

Yeah.

And maybe it's not a delusion because maybe what you start to write immediately is a very interesting sentence or two.

Some days.

Yeah, you can't expect a good time every day.

You might want to quote me on that.

It's not a ritual, and I never enjoyed it.

It's a reality, and you do it because you need an instrument that you can challenge.

And in order to challenge something, you've got to know how it stands.

I mean, I could challenge, you wouldn't want me to, the centering of this, but I can only do it if it's already grounded.

Then I can try to throw it off.

You can't just throw things off.

They've got to be set before you can throw them off, right?

So that is you just set the mechanism for the day you're going to have to do it.

It's kind of boring and it's kind of loathsome.

I would rather go to the gym than brush my teeth, I'll tell you that.