Yes, yes it is.
I want to write a novel. The narrator is a hard-boiled detective. This is my first sentence:
She smelled of cigarettes, sweat, sex, a dunkin donuts cruller, motor oil and the subprime mortgage crisis.
Good start, right?
She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all, but doing something much more ordinary.
kfan:
1. No laptop in bed.
2. No internet for at least 30 minutes before you got to sleep.
3. Nothing on your feed reader that posts more than X times per Y.
4. Being bored does not mean you have to check your email.
5. Don’t only read websites related to subjects you know inside and out.
6. For every X feeds that you add to your reader, remove Y.
7. Don’t read email on your phone.
8. If an email upsets you, never respond immediately.
9. Think about the motivations behind the blogs you subscribe to.
10. Don’t read the comments.
Any idiot can face a crisis — it’s this day-to-day living that wears you out
britticisms: When in doubt, listen to Francoise as much as possible.
“Comment Te Dire Adieu?” by Francoise Hardy
Men always want to be a woman’s first love - women like to be a man’s last romance.
You’re limited to this tiny field of view, but stuck with the fact that you can’t ignore anything inside it. There are no blind spots. No distractions. In real life it’s easy to look past something. Everything is moving and you’re trying to keep up. But a camera can’t squint when it looks into the sun. And that sense of unbiasedness forces you to be conscious of what you’re seeing. It makes you take responsibility because every little detail you can fit into that box for one half-second in time is going to be permanently stored forever.
Once you learn the difference between what your eyes see and what a camera sees, you can stop capturing moments and start creating them.
And that’s pretty awesome.
