Crows along the browsing bowl of our due sideways Brendan's welcome to the blind

by podcast. I'm only in the door from Portugal. I was over in part or the past week.

Doing lots of exciting writing. I had a writer's room for a television project

that I'm working on that I can't speak about yet. Did that for a couple of days?

Got some wonderful stuff written that we're already happy with. And I wrote an

entire short story which I'm incredibly pleased. A rather full-shot story from

start to finish in like five days and I was incredibly pleased with that

process that I didn't experience any any writer's block or any doubt. I just

had a ferocious amount of fun with the page. Controlled waking dreaming

that's all I want if I can feel like I'm dead dreaming on the page but I have

control over what's happening and when I'm writing I'm not thinking of

anybody else's work. I'm not trying to write like any other writers it's just

what's coming out of me and the influences from other writers are there but

they're assisting me in the background they're kind of cheering me on from

the sidelines. It's very difficult to do any type of creativity when you're

consciously aware of another person's work. Another person's work has to

inspire you the feeling of joy that you got from their work the feeling of

that has to be present in you but there is a feeling that is thoughts I read a

wonderful interview once with the writer Kevin Barry who I've had on this

podcast before but Kevin is one of my favorite writers and it was Kevin Barry

speaking about how he found his voice as a writer and when he was in his

late 20s and he started writing short stories or having a crack at a novel he

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