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Ulises Silva

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So yeah, about this writing thing… I started writing in grad school, when I somehow completed and serialized a 500-page Anime fanfic called Nightmares in the Apocalypse. And because I’m sure you can’t tell from the title, it was a very dark story that had lots of death and destruction and happy dreams. No wait, nightmares. It had lots of nightmares. And death.

It was terribly written and embarrassing to even claim, but it was my first novel-length writing, and so I have to embrace it the way Darth Vader has to embrace his previous associations with Jar Jar Binks.

Maybe it was my horror film upbringing; my parents took me to see The Shining, Alien, and The Exorcist when most of my classmates were going to see The Last Unicorn and The Dark Crys
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Ulises Silva With extreme, punitive measures, showing no mercy as I dispense indiscriminate justice upon writer's block, self-doubt, anxiety, and feelings of inade…moreWith extreme, punitive measures, showing no mercy as I dispense indiscriminate justice upon writer's block, self-doubt, anxiety, and feelings of inadequacy.

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I love being able to create stories out of crazy ideas. I love being able to say, "Yes, this novel needs another talking animal to counterbalance the time-traveling heroine's fetish for WWII-era bombers" and then being able to write it.

Writing is freedom. Freedom to imagine. Freedom to create anything you want. Freedom to commit grievous crimes and...oh wait, not that last part.(less)
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No love lost: Saving a dying writing project

This weekend, I came clean and admitted something terrible to my wife.


I was no longer enjoying writing. I was even thinking of stopping altogether.


For weeks now, when I opened my Scrivener project file, I didn’t feel joy. Or happiness. Or fulfillment. Or the need to eat papaya, though that was never really a thing so I guess I shouldn’t bemoan the lack of papaya urges.


What I was feeling was dread.

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