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smallnico:
more ridiculous things i’ve done for writing:
- weighted a grapefruit in my hands to see if i could justifiably describe something as “weighing as much as a grapefruit”
- done jumping jacks for 5 minutes straight so the memory of how exertion feels would be fresh in my mind
- googled images of butterscotch to see if “butterscotch” could be a hair colour
- casually stared at people at bus stops trying to figure out how i would hypothetically recreate their image in words
- written 7 different beginnings for a story to see which one i liked best
- gone to venice
- enthusiastically spoken dialogue aloud to myself to see how it sounds
- tried to read 3 books in one day
- experienced terrible things, reacting with “i can write about this”
- screamed incoherently at someone for turning on the tv while i was in the room, writing
- sat there perfectly still staring into space trying to imagine what getting a boner feels like
- “hey re-enact this scene with me”
- sat upside-down for ten minutes trying to get my brain to work
- squandered schoolwork and free time alike for years
- written
I finally found the quote I’d been looking for, from Oscar Isaac, on acting.
“I remember yelling at myself for scavenging my own life. I was having an argument with an ex-girlfriend of mine, and I was crying and she was crying, and there was a part of me that was recording it. I was like, ‘Are you a psychopath, that you’re able to be in this and also watching it and taking notes? That’s psychopathic behavior,’ ” he says. “And then I remember walking back and forth in the grass outside her house thinking, ‘You have to accept that it’s not an accident that you’ve dedicated your life to getting better at this thing. The people who do that can’t help it. And that’s why they become writers and actors and painters. Because they can’t help but comment on existence.’ ”
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smallnico:
more ridiculous things i’ve done for writing:
- weighted a grapefruit in my hands to see if i could justifiably describe something as “weighing as much as a grapefruit”
- done jumping jacks for 5 minutes straight so the memory of how exertion feels would be fresh in my mind
- googled images of butterscotch to see if “butterscotch” could be a hair colour
- casually stared at people at bus stops trying to figure out how i would hypothetically recreate their image in words
- written 7 different beginnings for a story to see which one i liked best
- gone to venice
- enthusiastically spoken dialogue aloud to myself to see how it sounds
- tried to read 3 books in one day
- experienced terrible things, reacting with “i can write about this”
- screamed incoherently at someone for turning on the tv while i was in the room, writing
- sat there perfectly still staring into space trying to imagine what getting a boner feels like
- “hey re-enact this scene with me”
- sat upside-down for ten minutes trying to get my brain to work
- squandered schoolwork and free time alike for years
- written
I finally found the quote I’d been looking for, from Oscar Isaac, on acting.
“I remember yelling at myself for scavenging my own life. I was having an argument with an ex-girlfriend of mine, and I was crying and she was crying, and there was a part of me that was recording it. I was like, ‘Are you a psychopath, that you’re able to be in this and also watching it and taking notes? That’s psychopathic behavior,’ ” he says. “And then I remember walking back and forth in the grass outside her house thinking, ‘You have to accept that it’s not an accident that you’ve dedicated your life to getting better at this thing. The people who do that can’t help it. And that’s why they become writers and actors and painters. Because they can’t help but comment on existence.’ ”
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