the virtual world

colin is snoring in the other room, liwei, my chinese roommate, is in the living room with me practicing kungfu kicks in our living room. it's raining outside. one of those good days: a friday, finished a test, no pressing homework, and the gentle patter of rain has lulled the normally noisy city into rest. all i have to compete with are snores, a tv, and my thoughts.

i'm pretty sure some really author said something like "the blank page taunts me". i think writer's block results from a fear that what will be written will not reflect what is thought. thus the eraser, the white out, and the keyboard. anything we create we also want the ability to destroy, just in case. and the virtual world is the best place for that. things can be easily created. and easily destroyed. but what can't be destroyed are people's memories. and so we get writer's block. professionals whose creations are stretched out for the interpretation of the world. what they are being paid for is keeping their words, and not destroying. they forfeited that right.

ideas and their representations have a fickle relationship. fear of scrutiny and misinterpretation, keep ideas locked. but is the key?

a plan always helps. it provides security and reassurances of logic. we can use our faith in human foresight and rationale to convince ourselves that success is more than likely. but for the planless and whimsical?

a virtual world of amateurs/semi-professionals. vlogs, blogs, and message boards behind the wall of anonymity, or at least with a new name.