Part I

mendacious: okay so what do we want to say

penelope: let's say something about how completely illogical it is to NOT write....

mendacious: let's say something about how we'll wither and die if we don't write

penelope: how it's so easy to come up with every excuse under the sun, like, as phyllis moore would say, polishing the chrome on the refrigerator...

mendacious: or watching every tivo'd episode of survivor

penelope: and how it's stupid, just plain stupid, because you're going to wither up and die if you don't, and in the meantime, you could be putting the energy of whatever's happening in your life into your writing....you feel better afterward, you know the payoffs, you know the punishment, yet, there is no writing, not usually.

(pause)

penelope: yes, exactly. like that weekend i watched all of survivor borneo. that was a little sick. but i liked it.