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Tom Perrotta on His Creative Process New videos DAILY: https://bigth.ink/youtube Join Big Think Edge for exclusive videos: https://bigth.ink/Edge ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tom Perrotta shares his writing schedule. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas R. Perrotta: Thomas R. Perrotta is an American novelist and screenwriter best known for his novels Election (1998) and Little Children (2004), both of which were made into critically acclaimed, Golden Globe-nominated films. Perrotta co-wrote the screenplay for the 2006 film version of Little Children with Todd Field, for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TRANSCRIPT: Perrotta: I’m a pathetically regular and moderate person. No, I don’t get up at 5 and work really hard, you know. I get up at 6 or 7 and don’t really get started on my work ‘til 9:30 or 10. You know, I have a couple of kids and, you know, there’s just a kind of morning ritual of getting them off to school, and so my work day is basically the school day, that’s when the house is quiet. I think what I love about really being engaged in the work is that it does tend to expand, to fill my time. So, I might stop working at you know, 2 in the afternoon and maybe I’ll go for a run or for a bike ride or something, but my mind will be

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