"I’m ashamed that I’m barely human. And I’m ashamed that I don’t have a heart you can break."

[greygirlbeast]

While I was sick, I forgot to open the curtain in my office, and the leaves on the tree outside my window went from green the shriveled and brown in a few days. I don't know what sort of tree it is. The leaves don't turn. Anyway, now I'll be looking at the leafless, barren, stark trunk until fuck knows when next year. April or May 2014. Five years

Comments

[aoniedesade]

Lovely to hear about new Pickman fiction. That and the Perrault cycle are my favorites in Sirenia.

[mythgarden]

"But I don't write in drafts. I can't. Don't know how. I sit down and produce polished, finished prose. Anyway, having to undertake rewrites would, ultimately, eat up just as much time or longer, even if I could dash off drafts"

I can relate to this statement so much. I write in much the same fashion. Even in high school, when my teachers would demand rough draft after rough draft I could never quite explain to them that I just didn't write that way, that everything I submitted to them was already "final" in my eyes.

The concepts of rough drafts, outlines, and their ilk never worked for me, and it can be very annoying when everyone expects them.

[everville340]

Something with intellectual content every day...

Cheers to that.