I want every page I write to be fresh, a new world to itself and me, I want to be surprised and sometimes very disgusted by what I write
I have moved from straight genre sci fi to a messy metaphysical melting pot.
From nihilism to meaning and every now and then back again
I got up in the other night in the middle of the night to write a story I loved at midnight but found quite dull when I was also me at 10am in the morning.
But in the end it was a disjointed story of allegories for life on another planet, strange physical intimacies that make you squirm, and a character who can't go to sleep yet because she needs to eat another orange.
I wish to become the avant-garde writer of your waking nightmares. I already am. A nightmare writer but occasionally something really good comes out that someone else might love. As long as I love and commit to every word I write that really is all that matters.
Every word can't be wonderful. It needs to be jagged and messy and incoherent in places, with some flashes of brilliance, because I am me and when I book flights for the wrong day and use fish paste in cakes instead of vanilla essence that is me as well and it needs to be reflected in the writing
Even though I love literary fiction and academic topics, I also devour pop music and reality shows so there's always going to be a giant drop of bubblegum in whatever I write.
Sorry to say but you can only write brilliantly if it comes straight from your soul. If you write every day you are an angel.
I have moved from straight genre sci fi to a messy metaphysical melting pot.
From nihilism to meaning and every now and then back again
I got up in the other night in the middle of the night to write a story I loved at midnight but found quite dull when I was also me at 10am in the morning.
But in the end it was a disjointed story of allegories for life on another planet, strange physical intimacies that make you squirm, and a character who can't go to sleep yet because she needs to eat another orange.
I wish to become the avant-garde writer of your waking nightmares. I already am. A nightmare writer but occasionally something really good comes out that someone else might love. As long as I love and commit to every word I write that really is all that matters.
Every word can't be wonderful. It needs to be jagged and messy and incoherent in places, with some flashes of brilliance, because I am me and when I book flights for the wrong day and use fish paste in cakes instead of vanilla essence that is me as well and it needs to be reflected in the writing
Even though I love literary fiction and academic topics, I also devour pop music and reality shows so there's always going to be a giant drop of bubblegum in whatever I write.
Sorry to say but you can only write brilliantly if it comes straight from your soul. If you write every day you are an angel.
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