the thing about writing is that people who aren't writers seem to think it's this super cool creative thing like we sit down in a Starbucks with our laptops or notebooks and a soy vanilla latte and make up magical worlds but the reality is we drink five espressos in a row in our bedrooms, go into a trance state wherein the demons of our fictional characters possess us, and wake up five hours later with words we swear we didn't write and a plot that's about 26 degrees south of the plan we spent eight hours meticulously detailing the day before
