Every 21st century piece of writing advice: Make us CARE about the character from page 1! Make us empathize with them! Make them interesting and different but still relatable and likable!
Every piece of classic literature: Hi. It's me. The bland everyman whose only purpose is to tell you this story. I have no actual personality. Here's the story of the time I encountered the worst people I ever met in my life. But first, ten pages of description about the place in which I met them.
the swing of my arm
repeating as he pulls me
panting in the sun
Exercice de marche quadrupède - Walk cycle exercise at Gobelins
Hhhhhhhhhhella
When I see this picture, I feel comforted. This feels so familiar.
Last night, I got into some conversations with my friends about life, heaven, past lives and future lives. I will never know who or what I lived in my past or future, because the only plane that we truly know is real, and the only one we have control over is the present. But I see an image like this, I know I’ve been these before. I’ve swam in these water, basked in these iridescent light beams.
And I look foreword to the moment I get to do it all again.
a haiku i wrote after a walk along the shore on 4/7/24
sometimes my moments
and awkward blips convince me
i am an alien
Na Pali Coast | agpfoto
Shout-out to all the stories that didn't make it out of the shower with us in time to be actually written down.
sleepy
Illustrations by Vladimir Bobri (1898-1986) for SLEEPY BOOK (1958).
tell me your story, sir