Writing is an attempt to reach across the divide between me and you to make something from within me that might matter within you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgcOzBNdYlA
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I felt you reach across that divide when I first discovered you. I was in my aunt’s hospital room and I stayed up all night reading The Fault in Our Stars. It was an awful time in my life, but I didn’t feel quite as alone with the book. Thank you. You’ll be under our Christmas tree again this year!
Hey John. Thanks for making something that mattered to you and letting it matter so much to me. I’m very thankful I get to be alive with the help of it.
I couldn't agree more! Art, with a capital A, is first and foremost emotional communication in whatever medium. Books, movies, speech, board games; excitement, fear, contemplation. If you can use something to convey your emotions to me, it's Art. ( Fiction or not ;) )
I no longer feel like a weirdo when I pull my hair in frustration thanks to you. I know that it's still an uncommon behavior, but it no longer makes me feel abnormal when I do it, because it's something you do, & take this for the compliment I mean it to be, you're the most normal person on the net
Thanks for sharing your process - and how you view your writing within the broader context of history. I very much resonate with the idea you've expressed that we underutilize the important universality of illness. It's uncomfortable to experience/witness and so many of us fetishize health.
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But who reads these days - or is that the great divide?
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GOTCHA, MR. FANCY AUTHOR MAN.