shamless plug

chapter 5 is up and primed for your reading pleasure. if you don't immediately pick up on it, i'm playing around with narrative points of view. i'm not exactly sure how to incorporate various pov's, all faulkner-esque as torie pointed out, but i guess liz and ben will be my experiment to do just that.

something else i've realized about this short story stuff: writing fiction is damn hard. i get this feeling most of the time that what i write doesnt even do my characters justice. that i'm somehow harming them by bringing them into existane in the first place. any writers out there know what i mean?

also, as discussed with torie today, i think in a way, writing fiction somehow helps the author figure him or herself out. it sounded more profound when we discussed it at berri metro today. that the exploration of characters is actually the exploration of multiple aspects of oneself is what makes writing such a meaningful experience on so many levels. i think it's true. through liz and ben im making a lot of discoveries about myself. hopefully that wont take away from their story too much though.

at any rate, i just spent upwards of 3 hours writing and revising it so go have a read. in conclusion, after 6 hours spent studying at l'utopik, i'm going to sleep.