I Have Decided to Give Up Writing.
A s the subject line says, I have decided to give up writing. I do not have the discipline or the desire to work on a single line of dialogue day to day. Whenever I see a video about writing craft on YouTube, I do not watch it. I think it’s because I feel ashamed about not writing for large gaps of time. My day begins with watching what is called a “livestream” on Youtube. It is about stream of consciousness nonsense that I watch passively. I then watch something on Netflix and take a nap afterwards. Then I walk to a small town to drink a cappuccino at the local pizza shop. After that, I take the bus home. I don’t scribble a single l ine, not one letter, not even a keystroke. I dedicated myself to making one entry per day on my blog. It has been countless weeks since I have done that. The blog has been inert since January. I recently watched a video about an auth...