Writing

Wanted to share this quote:

"When I am working on a book or story I write every morning as soon after the first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as you write. You read what you have written and, as you stop when you come to a place where you still have your juice and know what will happen next, and you stop and try to live through until the next day when you hit it again. You have started at six in the morning, say, and may go on until noon or be through before that. When you stop you are as empty, and at the same time never empty but filling, as when you have made love to someone you love. Nothing can hurt you, nothing can hapen, nothing means anything until the next day when you do it again. It is the wait until the next day that is hard to get through." - Ernest Hemingway

Hoping for an encore.

Listening to Ms. Apple. It's relaxing.

Handed in the Hemingway paper. It's not all about my father being a misogynist. I did a full page dissection of "The Three-Day Blow". I recommend that after a healthy dose of "The End of Something." I wonder if how Nick thinks about Marge is how men think about me after they leave?

We got the Heminway style-of-prose talk today from Berman. He doesn't let me answer anything because I have all the answers.

I'm learning how to fingerpick using fingers I never knew I had. Or knew how to use.

I bought a bottle of 1998 Faustino which i'm planning on sharing over Copacabana.

Tonight might be a very important night for me. I won't know until it's over.

I'm nervous as hell though.

When I get excited I get so much energy. I take it out on my feet. I walked home today. I'm an odd spectacle, walking home. I skip and pull leaves. I got a fern today and twisted it between my thumb and forefinger until the leaves came off. It's a good walk. I go it slowly and try to observe the houses and the people. Shame the sun wasn't out. Not many people, either.

Home now and noone is here and I am waiting for tonight.