WHAT I DID
I go to the gym, I go to pilates, I go to dinner and I make a scene. I'm happy and I’m productive and I'm not sure I see the value in writing the mundane. I see the value in this writing by others, I see it when it’s not just cyclical. Journaling Won’t Save You, my friend Grazie wrote in a beautiful essay last year, but she didn’t mean a diary, she meant bullet points, a bullet journal, a Five Minute Journal. I’m trying to write a novel with little avail, and I'm starting to understand the value of PLOT. Plot, perhaps, as more valuable than Interior Monologue, or at least as inextricably connected, both valueless without the other. I’m not sure it’s a given that art and life are inherently connected. I used to make lists of my consumption: ART AND LIFE OF 2022 - chronicling film, books, food, friends. There’s harsher distinctions between those categories than the titles t…
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