how the fuck do you write without first writing a paragraph saying what it is you want to write about and then thinking "god damnit i can't possibly write about that"
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i want to write like i don't give a shit. like i don't even care if people can't catch up. like if my train of thought suddenly turns into a hovercraft and then jumps off a cliff and turns into a plane then whatever
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I ran an experiment of writing like I don’t give a shit (which is only partly true), just rattling any nonsense off when I felt like it, not even editing (yuck) Taught me a) I forget how much my own sloppiness of expression annoys me and b) honest-bad writing > dishonest-good
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Oh man I edit so much. Maybe this is a symptom of writing tweets and using chat. Every little part is perfect but the whole is dog shit
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I could write hundreds of pages of quips.
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May not directly apply to your desires/impulses but thought there was some overlap. My pinned tweet is an example of a long form shitpost which I shared. Weirdly some people didn’t hate it, within the bounds of its evident lack of effort & stakes , so
I’m ambivalent on itThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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