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Oh, my God.

You are not alone.

You have found other people.

You and I have a friend in common.

Every stupid thing that a writer could do I've done. I think it's really beautiful. Jake, I stated what I struggle, you know? It was incredible. You know, it's like your head exploded, seeing what was really there. And now here's your host, Brad Listy. Just one person at just one time. You know, right, right, right. Hey, everybody, how's it going? I'm Brad Listy.

This is the Other People podcast.

It's nice to be talking with you or talking to you.

My guest today is Natasha Dion.

Her debut novel is called Grace.

It's available now from Counterpoint Press, and she and I will be in conversation momentarily.

I don't know if you can hear it in my voice, but I am very tired.

I haven't slept while the last two nights.

My kids have been getting us up.

If it's not one, it's the other.

So it's just been a couple of rough nights of like two and three hours of sleep.

So with this in mind, I thought that today, for the monologue, I would share with you what I go through sometimes in trying to create a monologue.

This is something that I've never done, which is sort of surprising.

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