Bryan Way
It's certainly not the pay!
I think being electrified by pure inspiration comes closest to being a 'best thing'. It's like having a perfectly benign drug injected directly into my brain, sending ideas hemorrhaging out faster than I can collect them. Writing them down while panicking that I might forget one is exhilarating enough to make me laugh out loud.
At that point, I usually realize that the inspiration was not a natural event. It's less like a geyser than it is realizing that I've been subconsciously building transmission towers, installing conductors, and blindly stringing the wires. All the while, the collective weight of these materials are weighing on a switch in my mind. Once everything is in place, the switch gets thrown and the neurons blast through the power lines, giving me pause to marvel at the connections I unwittingly drew, culminating when a story is born, leaping from my skull much as Athena was born of Zeus, daring me to do her justice as I give chase.
That and I like telling stories.
I think being electrified by pure inspiration comes closest to being a 'best thing'. It's like having a perfectly benign drug injected directly into my brain, sending ideas hemorrhaging out faster than I can collect them. Writing them down while panicking that I might forget one is exhilarating enough to make me laugh out loud.
At that point, I usually realize that the inspiration was not a natural event. It's less like a geyser than it is realizing that I've been subconsciously building transmission towers, installing conductors, and blindly stringing the wires. All the while, the collective weight of these materials are weighing on a switch in my mind. Once everything is in place, the switch gets thrown and the neurons blast through the power lines, giving me pause to marvel at the connections I unwittingly drew, culminating when a story is born, leaping from my skull much as Athena was born of Zeus, daring me to do her justice as I give chase.
That and I like telling stories.
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