Are You Willing to Work Hard Every Single Day?

When i went to acting school, we had a very smart theatre history teacher who asked us a question once. He basically said, if you're not willing to do this every single day and not get there at the end of your forty, 60 years or whatever, then you have no business doing it to begin with. Nobody ever told my mam that, because she never joined a union. She didn't get in a writers group until many years after h had been writing. I thought i was alone in my own sort of spiraling, ever circling the drain. But none of us were able to help each other really consciously through that. And yet, of course, we were encouraging each