Life, in 3 Simple Steps
1. Start
2. Trust
3. Continue(N.B.: Simple does not mean easy.)
Life, in 3 Simple Steps
1. Start
2. Trust
3. Continue(N.B.: Simple does not mean easy.)
JI-SHI-KA: 20 days, 35,000 words
Last month, I set a goal to finish my novel by the 1-year anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake (3/11/2012). Heavylight isn’t about the tsunami per se, but it’s about Japan, and the disaster has become part of the cultural fabric here. What’s more, it has a very personal significance to…
Your book gives me shivers. Keep writing!
Two people with a fated connection. A rendezvous in another world, part dreamscape, part prison, part question, part answer. But who are we to demarcate the lines of truer and less true realities? The world they think they know has only just begun to open its elevator doors.
This affirms my suspicion that black eyeshadow would look ravishing on me.
Nigatsudo at sunset.
This entire pan of vegetables is going on top of my small bowl of pasta tonight. FEED YOUR MITOCHONDRIA.
Storm is comin’.
you say I slept?
- Darcy: How did I even fall asleep last night?
- Me: You laid on your side and said, "I'm going to lie on my side while I think about the next paragraph," and I knew that was Darcish for "I'm gonna fall asleep now."
- Darcy: And then what happened?
- Me: You fell asleep.
- Darcy: And then what happened?
- Me: Nothing. For like ten hours.
- (Pertinent note: Darcy is an insomniac. This is an event.)
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This is pages 40 and 41 of my copy of THE FAULT IN OUR STARS by John Green. I was reading it out loud to my fiancée when we came across a startling line. The narrating character receives a text message that says to meet her at the mall at 3:32. This evidently requires some kind of explanation, which surprised me, because doesn’t EVERYONE schedule things down to the minute OH WAIT THAT IS JUST HERE IN JAPAN WHERE PUBLIC TRANSPORT IS SO ON TIME THAT YOU COULD SET YOUR WRISTWATCH TO THE ARRIVAL OF TRAINS EXCEPT YOU CAN’T ACTUALLY BECAUSE NO ONE WEARS WRISTWATCHES ANYMORE EXCEPT AS A QUAINT ACCESSORY.
In other news, I love this book. Thank you for reminding me of crazy life in America, John Green!
The pin in her hair is inspired by the petals of a spider lily.
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