@neilhimself I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks actual magic are the words we speak and write. They have the power to make people feel joy, feel sadness, to comfort those in dark places. They construct the very world around us
@neilhimself At the risk of making this more sordid than it could or should be, I write happy smut. People I don't and never will know have let me know that reading my stories led to orgasms. That's a pretty cool superpower, ain't it?
@neilhimself On my first readthrough, I wept like a baby at the honorable passing of the first Dream. No other author before or since has succeeded in moving me so. A magician you are, good sir, and we thank you for it.
@neilhimself I realized recently that the songs I write that make people cry are mostly about imaginary situations. I even put that in a song. Then I made someone cry with a song about what really happened. That was magical.
@neilhimself Once you add the effects on readers not just across such giant gaps of space, but those of time as well, this idea becomes even more stunningly full of wonder, awe and beauty. I tell my students that writing means throwing messages in text bottles into the ocean of time and space, and that the challenge is helping their future bottle discoverers on distant shores decode the stories they tell …
@neilhimself Too much of the commentary about the Internet overlooks this simple truth. Using the Internet people can communicate with each other instantly across vast distances. Yes there is some bad but there is far far more good 😊
Stop trying to cram the genie back into the bottle and start realising its potential, remember there will always be fraudsters out for a quick buck, that’s human nature. #auspol