The writer's mood

Some days, the writer/director can feel this way:

Or see himself as:

But much of the time you feel like...

...and sometimes you feel like you're sucking down peppermint schnapps and calling Morocco at two in the morning...

So the gamut for writers is anywhere between Orson Welles and Mark Borchardt.
But this is how you gotta look at it, kittens...