Though the mentions of Shakespeare writing
King Lear in quarantine have mercifully decreased, it’s hard to shake the hustler’s mindset. With this vaccine rollout comes a nagging thought:
when the pandemic ends, what will you have to show for it? What projects will you have done? Or perversely
did you waste this opportunity? Here’s a little antidote for that nagging voice:
The New York Times interviewed 75 artists about their experiences creating in a pandemic, and when asked “What’s one thing you made this year?”
August: Osage Countyplaywright Tracy Letts had an unvarnished answer.
I’ve made nothing. On four separate occasions, I arranged my schedule with [my wife] Carrie so I could have six uninterrupted hours a day to write. All four times, I emerged from my office after two or three weeks, rattled, defeated, feeling lousy about myself. My wife finally said, “Here’s what you have to do: read books, watch movies, cook dinner and take care of our boy.”
When Tennessee Williams was 16, he won a writing contest by pretending to be a disgruntled divorcee
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