Two Rules For Creating Anything.

Sometimes writing is setting your fingers on fire trying to keep up with what your brain is creating.

...Then sometimes it's banging your head against the keyboard and hoping the result is better than what's on the page.

okay, yes, I know that comma isn't supposed to be there but I want the reader to take a breath! I want a pause! Stop trying to correct me, I'm trying to control the flow of reading

bingewatching will never come close to bingereading. there is nothing like blocking out the entire Earth for ten hours to read a book in one sitting no food no water no shower no bra and emerging at the end with no idea what time it is or where you are, a dried-up prune that's sensitive to light and loud noises because you've been in your room in the dark reading by the glow of a single LED. it's like coming back after a three-month vacation in another dimension and now you have to go downstairs and make dinner. absolutely transcendental

one time a professor asked me if i’d ever wanted to write anything “more important” than romance. and i said no. i was put on this earth to write about sad people kissing. and if another writer ever came up to me and said they wanted to write 400 pages containing nothing but a character baking a single loaf of bread each day, then i would tell them to do that. people don't write something because it's important. they write about something and that is what makes it important

Hey you ever think about The Characters so much to the point where

sometimes i go back and reread what i wrote a while ago & i'm like

do you ever just find the most inscrutable shit in your notes app from three months ago and think what the fuck was i planning to do with this? because me too

Current book: 50% done, struggling.

New book idea: shiny, exciting, begging to be written.

Result: 27 unfinished drafts and a deep, personal crisis.