For The Love Of God, Write All The Self-indulgent Scenes You Want. Be Utterly Shameless About Including

for the love of god, write all the self-indulgent scenes you want.  be utterly  shameless about including every last fantasy.  i know everyone likes to share quotes and quips about how miserably hard writing is, but please please try thinking of it as a joyful act where you get to be a messy human who makes art rather than some pain filled quest for icy perfection.

“A man takes revenge because he finds justice in it. Which means he has found a primary cause, found a basis and that is: justice. So he is calmed on all sides and therefore takes his revenge calmly and successfully, as though he’s convinced he has done an honest and just deed. But I see no justice here, and I don’t find any virtue either and therefore, if I’m about to take revenge then it’s only out of spite.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground

i overthink….therefore….i overam….

Same motels, different signs, much less neon 

Lake George, New York, 1950′s, 1970′s & today

there's so much love and hope stored in spring and summer its true

"Don't take it personally" How would you like me to take it then? Professionally? Romantically? Academically?