2001-08-20»
I'm attempting to return to the point where I enjoy writing. This may involve some work. But then writing for me has always involved a lot of work, ever since - well, ever since I started getting paid for it. You wouldn't believe how much I struggle over even a few sentences, and often for very little obvious improvement. I truly envy people like Avedon Carol and Richard Kadrey who can write beautifully coherent arguments online at terrifying speed, before logging off and doing their real, paid, writing work.I'm presuming a little. Maybe they fret as much. Prose appears fully formed, ex nihilo, with no clear idea of how it forms. Except in IRC. I remember being very disturbed when I watched over the shoulder of somebody I knew on IRC, regularly spilling out complete sentences into a channel at a speed I can't even think at, let alone write.