side,rse, there is a dark and forces him to face demons as far as self-hatred and not liking who he seesmirror. at the end of the day, it starts conversations, especially with his mother. to show has the ability start conversations with people coming to the show, topics people are afraid to broach. especially intergenerational conversations. charlie: congratulations on the nomination. ben: thank you very much. charlie: when you write the book, what does that mean? steven: it means essentially that my responsibility is partly to structure things, to kind of come up with the roadmap. then all the dialogue. what it meant in this case, because we had no source material -- often you have a book or a movie -- was we came up together with the rudiments of the story and characters, and then i went off and wrote the first act as though it were a , and less spaces where the three of us decided songs might go. then i send them that draft. then we got here where we thought there would be a song, actually it should come earlier, so this scene needs to be longer or shorter. it's kind of building the s