Theres one initial, primordial question I ask myself when the time to write comes.
The real time to write.
Beyond the toys and the tools and the genres.
Issa López, ‘True Detective: Night Country’Michael Buckner for Deadline//Max
What is it, behind all of that?Often, you dont know.
And you wont know until way, way later.
When almost done, or sometimes completely done with the first pass.
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Often you are just listening to your own words.
Reading the scenes you wrote the day before.
You may think its about this, or that… but then it hits you.
Oh, this is it, right here.
This is really the story that matters here.That was not the case withNight Country.
I knew from the start what it was about.
The ways we isolate ourselves.The story found me at the dead center of the pandemic lockdown.
This massive sense of waiting permeated every thought.
It connected seamlessly with the idea of the long night, full of uncertainties surrounding us.
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