Most of our energy is spent on what-ifs instead of what is.

I think it's because we believe we can predict the future. Prevent calamities and participate in moon-shots.

But trying to prevent a future calamity won't make it any less unlikely. Trying to predict the next moon shot won't ensure your...

When you were new in town you had to prove yourself as quick as possible.

Roddy didn't have large hands, but he had a crazy temperament. Calm one moment standing next to you lending you a cigarette on a cold day, mashing some random guy's face in the next.

See it was...

The thing you know you want to say is probably the thing you will write most poorly about.

The thing you don't know yet but feel is the thing that will come out best.

At the deepest level writers don't enjoy the craft because it allows them to express. That is a...

She showed up to town a day early.
This surprised me. I was used to her being fashionably late wherever she went.

Final Friday, some no name party at a no name  cafe out in the middle of nowhere. Why did she come out such a way for this?

She drove her  Subaru...

I found you in a  jazz bar.

They had been playing jazz that night. Duh. 

Camel was what I was puffing on. You had a cigar.

I felt like Zelda and thought you could be my Francis. In fact I thought you could be my  Gatsby . You were from the...

After writing a whole lot into my notebook and then tweeting a bunch I came to this page and i didn't know what to write about. That's when it came to me... I should just not write now. I should write later.

So i closed this tab and went to check...

There was a bar. Outside of town. Just beyond city limits technically; this allowed them to avoid a few laws or something like that. But nobody gave a damn about that and they called this their favorite bar in town.

It was my favorite bar in town. In fact it was...

Writing is easy when it's an action of discovery.

It becomes difficult when it becomes the task that follows discovery.

Then it just a matter of time before we lose the willpower to write.

We like to cast people as superficial. As base creatures who want nothing more than recognition.

But if they wanted...

Announcements are dangerous.

We make them, then wait eagerly for congratulations and permission from others.

But what permission are we thirsty for?

Now when you read this you might say you are not announcing but rather documenting.

Documenting is more truthful than announcing, but people never last with the documenting.

They'll make excuses: most...

She fed herself through four bags of saline solutions. She took the four bags twice a day. 

Four years ago her torturer ripped out her small intestines. The torturer must've been a trained surgeon, otherwise there was no way they could've pulled off such a clean job.

Besides the height and...