In re: your own life - Sometimes I think you should just go ahead and write the damn fanfic already.
I wrote this a few weeks ago and have no idea what to do with it:
we draw circles
in the sand and stand
inside of them,
but what we fear comes from below
comes from within;
we draw circles
in the [...]
Art finds a way, despite all of my attempts to stifle it, whether intended or not. For a long time my entire identity revolved around being An Artist, and I was crazy about that feeling of exhilarating creation. I would make art for the sake of doing so, I would make art because it felt [...]
As for the connection between quitting my job and New York City, I think it is buried somewhere within the recesses of situational relevance - right here and now, in the fluid present, I’m in this situation and unhappy with it. In the past and future (if they can be separated as such) I’m in New York City and I’m happy. What’s happening here is making me think of what’s happening there, right here and now.
A few things I’m working on, and hoping to have one or more of them for you by the end of the weekend:
A story on intensive German class and the bunker mentality that became associated with it
A story about how I try to title stories before I’ve written them
A story about how I found out [...]
It is roundly accepted that the best fiction is a product of a “what if” scenario. What if George Washington was an alien, what if Bruce Willis didn’t know he was dead, etc. There have been several things in the last few days which I have observed and then said to myself, “I should write [...]