I was emailing with a friend of mine in a Calarts MFA, and she talked about spending long nights “in studio.” MFA students in art and design work together in a shared lab space, working on their projects simultaneously at their desks. We’ve seen a dramatization of this in PROJECT RUNWAY, where all the designers are draping and cutting at the different tables, just a few feet away from each other.

I wonder what it would be like to try the same thing with writers, or with directors. There are three new plays simultaneously being put up at the DCTC now, and I wonder if anyone has gotten the 3 directors together.

I suppose the Internet is the writers’ shared studio, of sorts.

When Meredith and I were working on our theses, senior year, we would go together to coffeehouses with our laptops and write at the same time. That was one of the most productive writing experiences I’ve ever had. If I had a bad sentence, or a tough transition – just like if I was having trouble draping a sleeve, I don’t know – Mere could help me.

And Sari has a kind of shared studio environment in her paper, where all the reporters’ desks are right near each other.