Struggles

I once ran into Matt Damon and he asked me if I had anything to show him. He was referring to my writing. I had mentioned to him that I dabbled in screenplays - we were on the bus together and had somehow gotten on the subject. I told him that I didn’t have anything cooking at the moment. I asked him if I could get his email and send him something when I was ready. He said, “No, no. That’s okay.”

I sometime try and write this opening scene where there’s a close up of spinning bicycle spokes and then we pan out to see the rest of the wheel, then the whole bike and these kicking legs, and then there’s the kid (sometimes it’s a hipster, sometimes it’s just a kid) and he’s focused and sweating, peddling through traffic in New York, or in a neighborhood in autumn. But it never goes anywhere.

When the time comes that I'm making enough money and am under no particular pressure, I would like to start each day by walking down to the café and eating breakfast and reading the Times. I imagine that this would set up a clear mind and a productive rest of my day.

I realize that studying another language would help with my writing.

I’ve heard that Matt Damon plays a lot of Scrabble. I would imagine that this is a helpful use of his time, learning all those funny words and all.