May 24th, 2010
My life is terribly imbalanced, and for that reason, every segment of my day is rationed. You may imagine how I welcomed the prospect of 7 days almost completely to myself. The problem was how to squeeze as much living as possible out of the experience. You may imagine how I welcomed the prospect of 14 hours of flying time, plus 8 hours on a train and even better, 7 days almost completely to myself. The problem was how to squeeze as much living as possible out of the experience.
May 10th, 2010
... the problem wasn't that I didn't have any ideas–it was that I was trying to force a story for the sake of writing alone. One might as well insist on cooking any object close at hand–you'll eventually get something, but what? The important thing here is that I had nothing to say. When attempting to write a story, solving that is the first step.