Writing about writing and reading
One thing about audiobooks, is you can't tell how far into the story you are while listening. A paper book, you can see the thickness of the pages in your hand. A kindle book has that little percentage on the bottom as you turn the pages. But an audiobook, who knows? I'm still listening to …
Continue reading "That feeling when you still have half the book left"
The more you read, the more you write. And perhaps, anyone who reads enough will eventually be unable to resist trying their hand at creating some of the words they love so much. Read read read, fill your head with new words, and stories, and ideas, and feelings. Read what you want to write. Read …
Continue reading "Words go in, words go out, you can’t explain that"
I've been having a lot of ideas lately, giving them a bit of polish, then storing them away for later. I don't often have success with an idea when I write it too soon. Ideas need to age... But now that I've got a few of them shelved and fermenting, maybe I can actually get …
Welp. I broke my streak of a year + of blogging every day. No blog post on Sunday. Oops. But missing a deadline is no reason to stop writing, on the contrary, it means you should write even more! All time is arbitrary, all the meaning we give it comes from within ourselves. So though …
What does your mind do while you're away? Could your dream world be more important and enriching than waking life? Our days so often seem like meaningless survival, as if our consciousness is just a way to keep us eating and procreating, the same way a section of our brain keeps our hearts beating and …
Jonas David 