Contemporaneous: Chapters 38 – 39
38. The creative spirit is wonderfully erratic, sometimes quick and irresistible, and other times sluggish, if not apathetic, or maybe it’s just pathetic. I’ve learned over the years to just write, so I’ve narrowed the gap between the two extremes. Lots of writers wait for inspiration, or think inspiration’s going to fuel them the whole way. It’s not. It’ll get them 1% of the way. The rest, as the cliché goes, is perspiration. And, right now, given the mess of the meeting with Regina, and knowing I’m off the Melody edit, I feel this awesome resentment. People talk about positivity and shit like that. Anger and resentment are great motivators,…
Contemporaneous: Chapters 36 – 37
36. The change keeps me up at night. There’s something I feel, like the hour before you come down with something like food poisoning, or a cold – you can feel your body’s queasy, can feel it’s struggling with something that shouldn’t be present, and you’re just hopeful that you’ll fight it off, but there’s an inevitability that it’s going to unravel spectacularly. Only it doesn’t – outside of a lack of sleep, and constant restlessness, and some tightness in my back and shoulder blades, nothing develops, other than the awful exhaustion I feel when I drag myself out of bed before my alarm goes off at 6.43am. I text…
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