For the first time, the pandemic is letting Billy Porter focus on writing, which he's doing for five hours every morning. One finished product: His new song, 'For What It's Worth.' Listen to it here.
] is a throwback to political music. I think in recent generations, artists have gotten afraid to speak for fear of alienating an audience; but we've got to talk, we've got to speak. It's the people who make the change, it'swho make the difference. That has been helping me a lot, knowing that I'm going to have my voice out during this time.
As a multi-hyphenate kind of person, I've never — except for going to a writer's retreat one time for three weeks a couple of years ago — had the luxury of just. I've always had to fit my writing in between stuff. I've been writing every day from 5 a.m. to 10 a.m. It's really been life-changing for me.
I'm writing my memoir right now, so I'm working on that; I'm also working on a children's picture book and a pilot script I'm developing and I'm writing a musical. So there's a lot of stuff for me to do."I never wrote until I startedI found my way to writing to an artist workbook calledby Julia Cameron. She speaks of training yourself to wake up every morning and write three pages longhand of whatever comes to your mind.
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