《Unlikely Animals (short stories)》Waiting for Inspiration – Act II
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HERB: Meanwhile, we’ll riff for ideas.
PATRICK: You're right, we've got time.
HERB: It's so we won’t feel like we’re wasting time.
PATRICK: We can’t have that.
HERB: It's so we won't get bored.
PATRICK: We wouldn’t want that.
HERB: All the old ideas.
PATRICK: They’re tired like crumbled paper.
HERB: Like plagiarism.
PATRICK: Like used condoms.
HERB: Like plagiarism.
Silence.
PATRICK: They all can’t be taken.
HERB: Each one has.
Silence.
PATRICK: Maybe remixed.
HERB: They regurgitate.
PATRICK: Defy tropes.
HERB: They regurgitate.
Silence.
PATRICK: What ideas do you have?
HERB: We write about elves who live on Mars with polar bears.
PATRICK: Elves are boring.
HERB: It’s a new take.
PATRICK: It defies tropes.
HERB: No one cares.
Silence.
PATRICK: They’ve been done like messiahs.
HERB: Like plagiarism.
PATRICK: Like enemies to lovers.
HERB: Like plagiarism.
Long silence.
PATRICK: Write something!
HERB: I'm trying.
Long silence.
PATRICK: Write anything at all!
HERB: What do we do now?
PATRICK: Wait for inspiration.
HERB: Ah!
Silence.
PATRICK: This is hell!
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