[MUSIC] Well when I was in undergraduate school as a writing major I was kind of forced to write a certain amount of pages for class. [LAUGH] And I'd had this idea a couple years before after seeing an album cover and then, you know, about three seconds of a music video. And I really wanted to write it down and make it a story. But other than those three seconds I had no idea what it was going to be about. And once I got this assignment I sort of had to write the story because I needed to fill forty pages and I had nothing to write. So I kind of went back into that idea and just brought out the story that I had been waiting to write for however many years. And at the end of it I ended up submitting it and getting it published in a magazine. Well the interesting thing about this one is I was really under a lot of pressure. And I know that there is a lot of research about intrinsically motivated people being much more creative but at this point I was forced to do something that I had been putting off for a while. And it was just, I felt like I was in crunch time. And I felt really invigorated, and I really felt everything. You know, at first I started saying, I'll write this many pages a day, but after a couple days I was just writing and writing because I had to and because I wanted to. Well, [LAUGH] it started a couple years before I actually wrote it like I said. Just kind of getting the idea. And I'm sure I could say that it was incubation period, for about three years, where I just didn't write anything, but it wasn't. I think it was probably just kind of laziness where I knew I didn't have to write it. But ultimately, you know, I got that you have to do this by this date, and I started writing. You know, I'll write two pages a day, I write five pages a day. And I started off forcing myself to do it. And I, you know, I would show it to my mom who's always been my biggest critic in writing because she's not afraid to tell me this sucks. [LAUGH] But after a while, you know, she started giving me really positive feedback and I started writing more, and more, and more just because. So once I started getting really into it there wasn't really a process anymore. It was just, I'm on a roll, I have to keep going, or I got an idea, I have to sit down and write this down. I had 40 pages to write and I didn't have anything to fill it with. I think one of the main ones was I didn't how it was going to end until I wrote the ending, so it was a surprise for everything. And I think that's a huge thing about creativity, is when you can make something that surprises yourself that's when you know it's completely cr, creative, because if you didn't see it coming, most people wouldn't have either. Well originally it was just kind of driven. Here's what I have to do, may as well get it done. That's how I approach a lot of, well, that's how I use to approach a lot of school assignments was here's the assignment, here's the deadline, I can get it done before then and then relax. So it was kind of, just a, get 'er done kind of mindset. But then as I kept going it got really invigorating. I got really excited, and my mindset was more about, I have to do this because I want to and because it's finally happening. So it started out as being kind of forced and by the end of it it was completely just excited, happy and natural. I would have to say just do what you think makes you most creative. Like I said, I mean, there are books, there's research everywhere saying here's the characteristics of a creative person, here's when people are most creative. And it gives all of these statistics, it gives all of this information, but the only thing is that that's for people that's not for you. So, if you have something that makes you creative, if you work better with extrinsic motivation, you work better under pressure or you work really well when people tell you that you're never going to be able to do it put yourself in that environment. Make sure you have that motivation and just do what you do. [MUSIC]