Chapter 23 - Writer’s Notebook: The only relationship you need to cultivate is between you and the page
Fuck everything else
“Though death is howling at our backs and life is roaring at our faces, we can just begin to write, simply begin to write what we have to say”
There is one relationship that you need to cultivate and that’s between you and the page. Fuck everything else.
I’m lonely, I’m afraid, and I don’t think I’ll be around for much longer. I’m also tired and in a lot of pain. I also think sometimes that [REDACTED] is going to commit suicide. And emotion aside, what annoys me is that I’m somewhere on that path myself, so don’t you fucking dare. And yet every time I open my mouth or my keys to say something, it comes out like this, rather than true to what I think or feel. I fall into patterns that sound right or at least sound right to me, rather than any truth. I’m lonely and I’m afraid.
I feel like I forgot decades ago how to tell stories. I also suspect sometimes that my first rush of truth when I was little and said I wanted to direct films was more true than the sensible optio…
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