Writing was the rare Hollywood vocation that never had to shut down, but A-list scribes including Damon Lindelof and Courtney Kemp describe a different reality: "I've written less in the last year than I have my entire career.", was road-tripping when, 100 miles in, he realized he'd been driving in second gear the whole time. To him, that's what it feels like trying to write scripts during a pandemic.
The practice offered her structure, something in short supply lately, and is the closest she’s gotten to mimicking her pre-quarantine schedule, where she’d often have pockets of time to write between her directing and producing duties. Now that she’s settled into a rhythm, she’s found she’s more adventurous with her writing, especially since she’s not barreling toward a production date.
That doesn’t mean it’s always been easy to find the time or the place to churn out scripts. In order to finish a movie she'd been working on, she holed up in her mother-in-law’s beach condo for two weeks while in Florida on one of their cross-country trips. “I lived like a 20-year-old boy, eating turkey burgers and not doing the laundry and wearing the same clothes and just writing,” she says, noting that the pandemic has completely upended her usual writing routine.
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