It Slightly Depends On Your Perspective, Sort

The Thing About Tourism Is Just That It's Incredibly Powerful. It's Like A Gun And It's Incredibly Easy To Be Irresponsible With It. And The Speed Of The Impact That Tourism Can Have On A Place Can Be Quite Breathtaking. It Doesn't Take Years, It Takes Months. That's How Quickly It Works. And It Can Be Quite A Bleak Thing To Witness.

Waking Was The Most Reliable Part Of A Dream, As Built Into Dreams As Death Is To Life. You Dream, You Wake: You Live, You Die.

Show People Your Stuff, Listen Carefully To Their Responses, But Ultimately Don't Value Anyone's Opinion Above Your Own. Be Influenced By Writers You Dislike As Well As Writers You Like. Read Their Stuff To Figure Out What's Wrong. Find A Balance Between The Confidence That Allows You Continue, And The Self-critical Facility That Enables You To Improve. Get The Balance Wrong On Either Side, And You're Screwed.

Personally I Don't Think There's Any Real Intrinsic Difference Between Comic Books, Movies, Theatre, Novels. I Know There's Sure To Be Some Differences Of Some Sorts. I've Worked On Novels, Films, And Video Games, And In An Adaptation, I Guess One Of The Issues Is That I Have To Be In Love With The Thing I'm Adapting Before I Do It. So That Can Cause A Problem. You Can Be Too Scared Of It. You Could Be Too Reverential. But At The Same Time You Want To Try To Capture This Thing That You're Obsessed By. You're Fixated For A Reason. What's The Reason? You Try To Get Ahold Of It.

I Wrote A Whole Novel Before The Beach. Unpublishable. Junk. But, For Some Reason I Stuck At Novels And Wrote A Second. Still Not Sure Why I Didn't Give Up. Stubborn, Maybe.