#bookworm

— Hbomberguy on plagiarism.

how writing actually works: daydreaming that one scene, creating a half-formed plot in a daze all around it, swearing at characters that don't magic themselves into existence, becoming absolutely obsessed with the story for a solid week, it becomes your entire life, you sit down open a blank word document and write approximately two and a half chapters, lose interest, daydream an entirely new idea for a new story, rinse and repeat

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, book covers

From February 16 to 17, 1913 Letters to Felice by Franz Kafka First published : 1973