it's unpleasant to have so many unfinished projects at once. April's spring cleaning should be about shipping as much as possible. Also, it seems that every task finished adds three new ones on top. Edit, find where to publish, promote. I want to enjoy the sun! Drinks! Men!
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actually, in this text, i end up talking about entropy, which is more physics than math, but still, a human effort to explain order vs chaos :) I've spent a weekend in a jazz festival, so thought a lot about how complex it actually is
I've been drinking coffee in an empty resort town this morning. Took out my laptop thinking I could write smth. It's more a meditation than a story, that starts with
"And then, there was jazz. When creating Earth, God threw jazz away as a mistake, a side-product of the harmony he was busy shaping."
Mood of the day is served by Odysseas Elytis
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Oh, this one is also great.
I'm solving my lack of time for writing problem by starting a running season. My sleep and recharge are already better. If I manage to focus longer throughout the day, spring can be actually productive.
Moving my ass is one of the creative secrets. What are yours?
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I'm reading a book on writing business. It starts suggesting manifesting. I love the city I live in, working on Sunday mornings is perfect to me, I enjoy life in general. How would manifesting more of the same would have any impact on the result? I wonder. Freedom doesn't do vision boards.
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Editing another story. I like this:
“You could have walked longer with me. To my place. Or… yours. I was surprised you said good night so easily.”
“I wouldn’t have dared.”
“Why?”
“Out of respect.”
“Respect my ass. That’s a bullshit excuse. You could respectfully walk me home, too.”
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I've read this last year, remember enjoying it a lot :)
When a man says he doesn't do feelings anymore, it's better to pack your things and go to the opposite direction. But she just flew in for a skiing vacation with him.
As two friends from uni slowly reunite, what will happen to their feelings?
open.substack.com/pub/madamech...
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this week my nights are for powerpoint slides and client work. less romantic, but pays for all the fancy parts of life. i'm too pragmatic - and love my job too much - to push it and become an unrecognised, unemployed writing talent. not yet. maybe never. i like living multiple lives in paralel
Invention of Athens would be an interesting one to read. But that would make me book another trip to Athens :)
bad text messages should deserve a genre of its own, though. I could certainly contribute :D
A guy in the bar (we are both Friday's regulars) asked if I have tickets to a certain jazz festival. I didn't. Next day, I woke up, sat down to edit my story Held (...inspired by him, maybe...a bit). Next thing I know, I have 3 tickets and a weekend booked in the town of that festival. I am A STORY.
i've been unsubscribed for some years now. They optimise for keeping people hooked, it's not about art or anything else beyond money anymore
listen to your heart, i think it has to be an intuitive choice :)
i try to fit them on A5 and then cross them out and add new ones. helps to keep track of everything i'm "somewhere in the middle"
This one has been ignored for months. I bought it, was super happy about it and then... Never opened it again, only increasing the pile of other books on it. It's time to read it.
Books and women are similar: they despise lack of attention. Only books can't tell you all what they think.
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One of my best investments was all the years I've spent learning French. I've learnt enough to read, listen to the radio and sort most of traveling situations, though not enough to be fluent. It had a major influence on how I understand a language. And gives me more books to read!
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I was in a rush with releasing my first stories, wanting to test the most common tips for self-publishing. Plenty of bullshit. Now, taking them all out for a full rewrite. Speed imitates progress and reminds of the main rule in anything: take it slow.
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If i wouldn't have the main, busy professional life, I wouldn't survive as a writer who's just starting out. I would overthink and be oversimulated. Now, I enjoy small moments and try to achieve at least smth. Apparently, it's good to not be 100% focused on one thing, take that productivity experts.
I'm sharing bits of my new story on substack.
Forgotten in the airport, pulling her suitcases through the snowy streets of Trondheim she's managing to keep it cool. It's setting the scene for how she deals with everything else, too.
madamecharmante.substack.com/p/alone-in-t...
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never thought about that. sort of book storyteller, but also just that annoying person who wants the others to know about the book she liked
I was reading his Journées de lecture yesterday. He's so much all over the place that all modern writing coaches would say he has no chance for being ever published :) But my guess is the French would still give him prix Goncourt, they still award lengthy books that are not always easy to read
Would Proust be able to find readers today? Like, get to the point already, dude. But he could write a scenario for French version of Bridgerton and be an overnight success. Or uncover Epstein files himself making it into a modern "In Search of Lost Time"? I wonder. #booksky
One of the most annoying thing is how many good books written in not english are unavailable to get. I read in three languages and that's still not enough in some cases.
This is a good project, at least it will be faster to know when there's no point in even looking for a book :)
it's better to go slow, but to get somewhere :)
There are people who can’t be alone. This is a novella about two people who don’t know how not to be alone. They are tired and cautious, but still curious. Gradually giving in to the desire, they don’t get lost in it. They get scared instead.
Snow Cabin is out! #booksky
www.amazon.com/dp/B0GRX2GSWF
from annoyance to making out?
this is the beauty of the human mind :)