the hidden side

⟡ Loving a character you created so much it feels absurd

⟡ Grieving the end of a book you wrote like losing real people

⟡ Having a whole conversation in your head and calling it plotting

⟡ Reading something brilliant and feeling both inspired and devastated

⟡ Knowing exactly what you want to say and watching it flatten on the page

⟡ The gap between the story in your head and the draft in front of you

⟡ Abandoning a project and thinking about it every day for two years

⟡ The specific ache of a story that isn't ready to be written yet

⟡ Writing around the hard scene for weeks before finally going in

⟡ Feeling protective of characters like they need you to get it right

⟡ Being unable to explain what you're working on to people who ask

⟡ Knowing a character's voice so well you know what they'd order for breakfast

⟡ The difference between a bad writing day and a day the work is actually bad

⟡ Trusting a story before you understand it

86/100

The world's tallest mountain is mauna kea, it's almost 4000 feet taller than everest if you measure from base to top, most of it is underwater though

The world's closest mountain to the stars is mount Chimborazo, it is both shorter and less high than the other two, but it is closer to the equator, so the bulge of earth makes it ever so slightly farther from the center, so it is closer to the stars