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The Incubation of Creativity
I'm an absent-minded professor without the academic brain. The absent-mindedness is very, very strong and it runs in my family. I bought a book published in the 19th century that said there were several stages in the creativity. And then there's inspiration,. which comes not when you're sitting at the desk normally, but when you're taking the dog for a walk or having a shower. Yesterday I got the ending to one particular scene. I'm doing a stage version of Life of Brian, a standing in the shallow end of the pool. It was like the dear old heads sitting on their eggs and not really doing anything else. You know, if it's an ordinary