Day 1

Today I'm going to try and write in the 2nd person. I've decided to include drugs and rock and roll into the story again. It's said because that's what comes naturally. I don't even think about it. But marijuana is especially interesting to me, as is the way youth just throws away their godlike bodies. How beautiful they look because they have no cares, like a candle burning all the way at the bottom. 

I'm struggling with where the novel is going. I'm taking a novel writing class and I'm upset because it wasn't my time and therefore I didn't get as much done, but on the other hand it did give me a push. If I hadn't taken it, I would still be in the "mud scene."

Other notes about writing: I'm obsessed with the perfect place to write. I am right now on the couch, with my laptop on my lap. I bought a mesh chair but I hate it, hate it, hate it because of the stupid hard rim around the seat the cuts off the circulation in my thighs. It makes me so angry, because the chair was expensive. 

I've also been trying to get used to squatting! I'm even using this side table as a squatting desk, and using a yoga block to support my heels. It's not actually going very well. I wish I had a guarantee that practicing squatting will eventually lead to squatting. 

I'm going to write now. I'm honestly very sad today. I thought at this day and age I'd be if not a famous writer then an accomplished one. But I haven't done anything, and I'm just kind of floundering. I think the key is to just write. Just write it out and keep writing and know that even though it's ultimately not going to be the best, at least the story is out there. 

"I do not regret the things I have done but those I did not do." Empire Records

Reviews

[Jaydaut]

Hemingway, it's my understanding, wrote naked, standing up, with a pencil, and was never far from his "Green Fairy".

"Hemingway was a known advocate of absinthe, a green liquor made from wormwood and other herbs that was commonly referred to as “The Green Fairy” due to the presence of a chemical compound called thujone that is thought to induce hallucinations (you know, like fairies)."

Whatever works? No. Hemingway wrote many all but unreadable passages in my opinion. Horrible writing obviously suffering from his alcoholism. Salvador Dali on the other hand, wrote he felt it mandatory for all serious students of the arts to eat hashish at least once a year. Or did Dali say once a week? I can't recall.

In any case, you've every reason to write and continue writing, but this you know. Your clean compact prose speaks of a true student of the craft.

J.