Words and Numbers

I'm not sure if listening to metal would improve my writing or not. I'm listening to it now as I journal. I feel like it could improve my writing because it's energizing, almost safe. However, I think it might put me in a certain mood — a good mood but a specific, limited mood. I can't have all my chapters contain a hint of warfare in the background. It's tough to say, but I'm going to stick with ocean sounds.

In other news, Machi Koro is cool. I feel like the objective is a bit too abrupt: just build these few structures, and you win. I have to design some games eventually, but project priority number one (one-ish anyway) is setting up my query letter stuff so I can start reaching out to agents. The other number one priority is establishing a tutoring brand. The other priority one is making videos. Another is designing and purchasing marketing materials. Soooooooo there are a lot of high priorities.

In other other news, I want the world to write! I think there's something especially noble about writing. The God of the universe speaks to us in the form of 66 books; there has to be something special about words. Don't get on my case just yet; God also makes it clear that He is 1 God but 3 persons. Suspending disbelief for a moment, He makes a big deal about 1 and 3. In other words, numbers are also paradoxically important. It seems that more and more things are of vital importance.

Nevertheless, I want to see the world filled with good literature. There are so many pretenders glutting the bookshelves, and there are so many other pretenders pretender the junk is literature. Not all art is art, my friends. All art is expression, and all expressions have their place.

But not all art is art. Not all art is craft. Not all art is skillful or reputable or laudable or noteworthy or commendable. Congruently, no person's feelings should ever be discounted, but this doesn't mean that every person's feelings should be framed, admired, and imitated.

Again, I want to see the world filled with good literature, so you should start writing to begin sweating out the toxins. Start a journal or a blog or a emails you never send or most anything that gets you writing regularly. Then, once you have sweat enough, you can begin crafting vibrant worlds.