I work from home, have cats, and don't have kids. And whilst I'm shopping... I'm focusing on shopping.
I think that for deep observation you need to spend time with people, and the nature of a lot of writers' lives is that we don't get that chance through the natural course of our week, so we have to make that chance.
The writer’s life here sounds monastic - although even monks and nuns lived communally. So perhaps more like a Stylite? “Do you write for a newspaper?” “No but I do have a column”
I also love improv. Altho I haven’t done it formally for a while. The choices people make (or don’t make) are fascinating. And telling. I like it how you have to listen with your whole body.
There are so many opportunities to observe people - at work, walking the dog, at school parents meetings, out shopping.
How people dress and present themselves. The stories they tell about themselves consciously and unconsciously. What they do. How they react.
If I study humans hard enough maybe they will let me be one.
I work from home, have cats, and don't have kids. And whilst I'm shopping... I'm focusing on shopping.
I think that for deep observation you need to spend time with people, and the nature of a lot of writers' lives is that we don't get that chance through the natural course of our week, so we have to make that chance.
The writer’s life here sounds monastic - although even monks and nuns lived communally. So perhaps more like a Stylite? “Do you write for a newspaper?” “No but I do have a column”
I also love improv. Altho I haven’t done it formally for a while. The choices people make (or don’t make) are fascinating. And telling. I like it how you have to listen with your whole body.