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            "Time, or at least the perception of it, changes profoundly when you're in the Zone.  For a writer, being in the Zone means that some creative force beyond your control is driving you to work obsessively, all day, sometimes all night, with no sense of the passage of time, until exhaustion literally forces you away from the computer.  And then, even after you've walked away, your brain continues to fire.  You don't hear much of what people are saying to you over the din of voices in your head clamoring to be heard.  You fall asleep at night, or sometimes at dawn, listening to them, only to wake up a dozen times in mid-thought, as if sleep hasn't been any impediment at all to the creative process.  You come out of the shower and, soaking wet, scribble notes on the pad you keep handy, just in case.  Your brain is like LAX the day before Christmas, with ideas stacked up like incoming planes, circling, waiting to land, so another one can take its place in the rotation.  For sheer long-term excitement, nothing beats it."

--Steven Bochco, co-creator of Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law, and NYPD Blue. Death by Hollywood. New York: Ballentine Books, 2004.  189.

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