"It's like having to go to the bathroom," Scott says of her writing. "When you got to go, you got to go. You have to obey the urge, otherwise you miss it. When I write, it's quiet in my mind. I hear the poetry, I hear the harmonies, the melodies, the percussion…"
I have never before seen anyone describe writing that way. I mean, it kind of is like that -- with somewhat less anatomical urgency, to be sure -- but doesn't that just make writing sound like a sort of unfortunate byproduct? (Of what, I'm not sure.)
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