A Case of You Page #2

the saddest, most pathet...

Sorry I don't work

for The New York Times.

The New York Times is not

really what it used to be.

I got to go.

Oh, Wait. Uh...

I have a lot of customer

to take care of.

Well, I'll talk to you s...

Bye.

Okay.

Oh, my God, I got to

write something good.

[MID-TEMPO ROCK MUSIC]

There you go.

What's that for?

Oh. I thought... Aren't

you... Homeless?

Sorry.

I just thought that was a...

That's a chai.

[CELL PHONE RINGING]

I'm so sorry. Uh...

Hey, what's up?

Yeah.

No, I saw the Instagram.

[CELL PHONE RINGING]

Hey, Alan.

Hey.

How'd the signing go, guy?

Um, fine.

Yeah, all right.

Total domination, right?

Teen Vampire continues

to command the shelves.

Well, quantity over quality.

That's what I say.

All right, listen,

the studio would like you

to translate a couple more

of their films into books.

Yeah, I don't know, man.

I-I...

The first one here

actually smells pretty good.

Let me set the table for you.

It's an action-adventure flick,

and it's called

"doomtombalienwomb"...

it's one word...

"dot-net," I think.

Check it out.

It's sizzling, and they got apps, and

they got the whole thing happening.

Okay, yeah.

Um... All right, let me move on.

I got a romantic comedy for you

too, and this one's called Sherpa.

Sherpa?

I think you could kill this sh*t.

Like the... like the Nepal...

Yeah, a woman

who climbs Everest.

Okay.

But in the process, she finds the

biggest discovery of her life:

love with her Sherpa guide.

She falls in love with him.

They're from different

backgrounds.

They speak the language of

kindness or something like that.

Listen, Alan, I don't know.

Lookit, I'm not saying that this

stuff is actually hard-on-inducing,

but you pop off a couple

more of these bad boys...

Alan, I think I'm gonna start

writing something else.

Something original.

Okay.

Something personal.

Yeah.

Listen, I totally get it.

So I'm gonna take a little time off and

start working on this thing, okay?

All right.

Here... here's the thing.

You're burned out.

You want to move the blocks around.

You want to reset the table.

I got to move them. Yes.

You need to take a break.

You need to do something a little bit

different, and I totally get that,

and I want... that's what I want you to do,

'cause I want you to stoke the fire.

'Cause if you take the coal too far away

from the fire, then the coal burns out.

If you put the coal back in the

fire, then the coal's gonna burn.

And I don't want

you to ever think

that anybody has ever

called you a hack writer.

Hack writer? What?

Okay, when you start

writing the pages,

you send 'em over to me.

Wait, Alan.

Hack writer.

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