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all morning Jake and I made sappy Mass Effect love comparisons to each other
“I love you more than Garrus loves calibrations”
“I love you more than the fans love Tali’s ass”
“I love you more than Liara loves Protheans ;D”
“I love you more than Grunt loves carnage :D”
“I love you more than Joker loves EDI”
it was wonderful and gross and everything is beautiful and nothing hurts
I couldn’t help but feel a little lazy on the long weekend, so on Monday I finally opened up my documents for A God Grown Old again. And what do you know: I really like what I’ve written so far. Even if a lot of it goes by the wayside, as the first drafts of openings tend to do, I’ve gotten a lot of character setup and foundation out of the way, and that’s really what I need to catapult into the main action. I managed to write another 1300 or so, pushing past the block I’ve been ignoring since… Gah, dare I admit it? Since MAY. Yup, the document hadn’t been modified since a solid four months ago. I felt great shame.
I don’t know if this is the start of a consistent writing schedule, but since I’m trying to focus on getting a draft down instead of perfecting it, perhaps these baby steps will turn into a bit of a trot.
Writing is a series of permissions you give yourself to be expressive in a certain way. To invent. To leap. To fly. To fall. To find your own characteristic way of narrating and insisting; that is to find your inner freedom.
Really good novels don’t have everything on the page. Really good novels are like spiderwebs: the filaments, words, are important but the space they create, the unspoken, is what makes it beautiful.
When I left high school, I had all my plans to go to college, but I had no money. And I decided then, the best thing for me to do is not worry about getting money to go to college — I will educate myself. I walked down the street, I walked into a library, I would go to the library three days a week for ten years and I would educate myself. It’s all FREE, that’s the great thing about libraries! Most of you can afford to go to college, but if you wanna educate yourself completely, go to the library and educate yourself. When I was 28 years old, I graduated from Library.
