Not much on any fronts. I've been off-again-on-again congested, which has made me off-again-on-again tired. I'm also going to blame the weeks around Winter Solstice for a lack of light that makes 6 PM feel like midnight. and 8PM feel like 2 AM.
I've been ruminating about the novel form and the Amazon form. The other day I was speaking with an English Professor about attention spans and voice and web design vis-a-vis monitors-versus-mobiles and she said that the department makes students read paper versions of the books they study. Apparently e-reading is different from paper-reading, in a way similar to someone who plays weekend basketball is different to a professional basketball player. As I have noticed recently that when I don't balance out my social media reading with longer pieces, I have to work harder to process longer pieces, what she said made sense to me.
When I think about Amazon form, I worry that it's not a good fit for my voice, and I wonder, how would Tolkien have been received. Maybe I should approach Amazon Writing like I do Twitter tweets, especially haiku. But then again, I'm probably over-thinking it.
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