I've never explicitly noted the colors of 

streetlights

like Jack, but I have had many inspirations because of different streetlight colors.

One of the snippets I shared in our old 

Writing Club

was inspired solely by the way the orange, tall street lights looked in one particular road connecting 

Lansing

and 

East Lansing

... I tried to create a scene where the college kids are heading back after a big meal at a 

diner

-- inspired by 

Fleetwood Diner

in Lansing -- where I wanted to recreate the emotion of having feelings while driving back under those orange lights in the middle of the night.

there's much variation possible there. It can be a drive alone, or a van packed with people. The music might be on... and if it is it can be any diffrernt type of tune... like wise if the music's off then the characters might be listening to something else. Their engine? their AC or the window is open and there is the sound of nature or urban ecology.

It's a scene I could write 1000s of snippets for 

Cotton candy skies.

I remember spending many hours and days under such skies in 

East Lansing

.

Back then I'd call them paint swirl skies. Like a painter was playing with water colors in the sky. 

I would say to someone next to me: Isn't it amazing that we get to live in this world, under a painting?

Exactly -> about a kernal sticking with you.

I think this is why it's more important at our level to try many different projects rather than get hung about one not working out so well.

When you say slow projects mean something more to us... I'm reminded of long projects. Like my world of 

Westcity

I've been working on for years. Or at least in the world for years, even though I might not write for it for months at a time.

but I wouldn't call that a slow project... more of a long proejct.

right as i wrote this i just realized... it is slow. Just not slow in the way the slow projects I was imagining in my previous comments were. 

Macro Slow vs micro slow.

I love writing for 

Westcity

... I love that you called it westtown that's hilarious. and no that's not just 

Lansing

or 

East Lansing

... it's kinda more Lansing + 

Grand Rapids

+ something else more imaginary. 


but because I love writing for it and it's the world I've been forming for so many years, I feel like it's sacred and I shy away from writing for it.

I think actually the next step is to not treat it as sacred and go all in on it in terms of execution. Wht do I have to lose? what do i fear i will lose? 

I'll tell you. I fear that I will lose my profound love for that world. 

BTW think it's hilarious you called Gabriel Gabe. Think that's the first time anyone's called him that here.