Josh

Sketch a day - Day 115/365

A long day. A really good day. Apart from the very beginning when I thought I had mislaid something very important. That kind of moment where you unpack your bags and check every inch of your luggage and start to mistrust your own sanity. And then, just as you are beginning to accept that the thing is gone, you find it. And part of you wants to smash the thing. For daring to reappear so unscathed by the horrible experience of losing it.

I did not smash it.

Anyway, beyond this stressful start, Josh and I have spent the day working on the musical. Bashing and re bashing the story beats. We went for a walk and kept bashing away. Trying to find solutions. Trying to push at the structure. Testing it. Its so exciting to work in this way. It's hard to explain the immense pleasure (and also, at the same time, the immense challenge) of creating a story with someone else. Truly collaborating on everything.

It's 10 to 12. I would write more but time doesn't allow and anyway, it would just be me geeking out about story and collaboration. So let's leave things there.

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