Welcome back to Working Over Time, the little sister of working where we hash out advice

about creativity and the creative process.

I am your host, Isaac Butler, and I'm your other host, Karen Hunt.

Karen, I am so excited because this week we are answering a listener email, and not only

that, that means we finally get to unveil our listener email theme song.

This one comes from listener Jeffrey, he writes, I'm interested in how creativity is depicted

usually poorly on stage and screen.

I think of this just having finished the Beatles get back documentary.

It was so good because it was so born, even edited down from 60 plus hours of raw footage.

You see long stretches at a time where they sit around smoking cigarettes by the carton

load.

Do you want some sandwiches?

We don't eat these.

Paul, do you want some sandwiches?

Hang on.

Do you want a dry bone?

A dry bone, yeah.

But then, boom, you see a flash of brilliance and Paul serves up, let it be.

You want me on the verse, when he comes.

When I was thinking about it.

Without the painfully boring segments which were tempted to fast forward through, the viewer

wouldn't appreciate the brilliance of the creative moment, which produces the enduring

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