when_string_becomes_rope DannyH When you're 50000 words in and you don't know where you're going next. Wonder just how fucked up I'm willing to let myself get to provide the world with five hours entertainment. That Norman Mailer quote gives me comfort. What was it he said? "In order to write a good book you should be in a state of mild depression and be slightly detatched from your subject matter." That's all right then. Does it follow that to write a great one you should be suicidal and completely cut off from reality? Don't ask me, I just work here. Here inside my head and that five o' clock bell never rings. Shut the fuck up Danny, just finish it. That's all there is. 020417 ... birdmad i'm hanging from/by these_strings_between 020417 ... sabbie today i looked up only to realise my puppet strings are damoclies thread and its all gunna get ugly real soon. 020417 what's it to you? who go blather from