i think the key to being healthier about it is to just be curious about what it is you have to say at any moment, and not to try to wait for the muse to hit. Writing has a lot to do with green lighting how you're feeling in the moment. I often don't disappear from public life because i feel like who needs me? You know, y'all are going to understand whatever i'm going to tell you. And that's amazing. Paul thomas anderson, i heard from reliable sources that when he made punch strunk love, he just was making a romantic comedy. He wasn't trying to make like, a subversive, different romantic comedy. That