the question is what novelists baggage
do I bring from novel writing to writing
plays
I don't know I just think my plays are
better because they have more I have
more practice of dialogue I have more
practice at plotting you know and and I
think now the stories I write are better
because I've had practice with scenes
and stuff you know live people moving
around on a stage and the reality of
things makes a lot more it's much more
vivid to me now when I write I mean the
inner reality that actuality is more
vivid so yeah back and forth they I
think they enhance each other really I
don't feel like I have a lot of like I'm
handicapped by some bad habit I develop
as a novelist or anything like that with
you think you have
yeah why not when I basically when I
write a play I've written like maybe
half a dozen or so or maybe it doesn't
but when it when I'm I try and get it
all finished in my head you know not
bring something to the players there's a
outfit I work with in San Francisco
called Campo Santo theatre company
they're the ones who produced my plays
mostly and when I bring it to them I
want it to be finished as far as I'm
concerned that is I want to say don't
change a word and then as the rehearsals
progress I start basically what I do is
cut I take things out and because the
scene seems slow or you know things are
revealed as unnecessary or just droves
whatever and also I'm influenced by some
of the Miss readings of the actors
strangely enough that sometimes they
weed things wrong and I think it sounds
better than the way I wrote it you know
or they'll leave them word out or put an
extra word in or something and I change
little things based on their their
serendipitous mistakes
