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Writer's Diary

12/14/24

Dec 15, 2024
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There are days when I feel lighter suddenly, when I realize, and when I realize, consequently, how much melancholy and sluggishness I was carrying with me. By comparison, happiness is a magic lamp, which illuminates all the normally invisible dark matter in life, in one's life.


The most freeing and exciting part about writing a play is when the language begins to speak for itself.


I'm enjoying doing my old play Dimes Square for a *normal* theater audience, one which, for the most part, is there to be entertained, and not to take part in a larger, amorphous social ritual.

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