Thanks for the outburst.
I wanted to show that life gets in the way and creativity is rarely linear.

The only truth for me is the stages of seed, brew, output, and edit.

Brewing can take a long time (output needs a deadline or a trigger). But that course did start something brewing...

TotallyHumanWriter

I began to read a greater variety of writing. Short stories weren’t pointlessly brief stories anymore — they became puzzles to unravel. We learned to read twice (once for enjoyment, and once to ask ‘how?’). After 2 or 3 weeks, I began to see that the real story was the twelve disparate characters who attended the course with me. Not one of them came from a boring 9-5 background. They all led weird and wonderful lifestyles, which resulted in us sharing stories over stale machine coffee at 9pm every Monday night. Outside, the grey London drizzle fell, and I dreamed of Buenos Aires.

The result? I didn’t keep in touch with anyone, and I didn’t even start writing fiction for another 5 years!

Yes sir! I very rarely make outbursts while reading. It's mostly internal for me, but these two paragraphs were great fun!

the_stacker_muse

Unphiltered - Chapter 2 - The Monday Night Club

> I began to read a greater variety of writing. Short stories weren’t pointlessly brief stories anymore — they became puzzles to unravel. We learned to read twice (once for enjoyment, and once to ask ‘how?’). After 2 or 3 weeks, I began to see that the real story was the twelve disparate characters who attended the course with me. Not one of them came from a boring 9-5 background. They all led weird and wonderful lifestyles, which resulted in us sharing stories over stale machine coffee at 9pm every Monday night. Outside, the grey London drizzle fell, and I dreamed of Buenos Aires.
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> The result? I didn’t keep in touch with anyone, and I didn’t even start writing fiction for another 5 years!

Yes sir! I very rarely make outbursts while reading. It's mostly internal for me, but these two paragraphs were great fun!