Broadcast

books are the only opportunity we ever get to experience true empathy with another human being. To see the world through their eyes. To walk in their shoes.

I just resent pivotal moments in our lives being reduced to nothing more than a photo opportunity. To fucking content. Something to like and share and then move on from, everything filtered and framed with the same bland conformity of a fashion spread, an endless popularity contest designed to distract us from the fact that our lives are pretty much totally bereft of any deeper meaning. It’s all just so depressing.’

Thoughts don’t happen in isolation. They come wrapped in the baggage of a lifetime of personal experiences and history and education and all the rest of it.

just resent pivotal moments in our lives being reduced to nothing more than a photo opportunity. To fucking content. Something

Every character needs context.

reader has to know where they’ve come from, what they’ve been through. I’m not saying you have to be likeable. But you do have to be

riumph over adversity.

Or Eastern European, perhaps.