/lit/ - Literature

>ideal comfy /lit/ day

I'm actively a writer and a poet, and I'm heavily at work on a major story of mine that is going to span multiple books. As a result of this, my comfy days these days frequently involve writing, not reading.

I have settled into a routine on Tuesdays and Thursdays, my fasting days. I don't eat much, sometimes I don't eat anything, on those days. I wake up in the late morning, and I lounge around listening to music and drinking coffee for a few hours. Then I get dressed and wander around my city a bit, often stopping here and there to walk around. I sometimes have to drive to get to places, but I spend time there for a while when I get there, browsing around the shops and various centers.

I will then get some espresso by mid-afternoon, and when I am done with that, I will go to a nearby market and have a glass of wine, where I sit and catch up on the news and social media of the day on my phone. Then I come back my apartment, and I drink plenty of water, after which I usually have a beer. Then I sit on my bed cross-legged, with my laptop propped against my legs, and a glass of wine on the nearby table. And then I write. Usually it's an hour, sometimes two, sometimes three. I'm highly productive in these circumstances. I once banged out 4500 words in a single evening. And I always feel "in the zone" when I'm in this particular place and time. My magic hour usually around 9:00 PM, given that I'm a night owl.

Then when I'm done writing for the evening I'll slowly sip more wine, and maybe some whiskey later, or some vodka or tequila or rum. And then I'll wind down, and gradually grow more and more tired, until it's time for sleep.

I strongly feel like there's room for romance, and even eroticism, in fiction that is nonetheless written for a moral or religious purpose. Obviously you need to be careful about writing something wrong or sinful. But at the same time, I feel like there's a point you can go to, an extent to which you can go, where you can write things that titillate, at least a little. I feel like to totally avoid such a thing would be to avoid writing a realistic story, a story that encompasses the full totality of human existence. Like I said, you just need to make sure you don't go too far. That, and make sure you keep your overall motivations clear and pure.

I spent the evening catching up with my sister in a dark, and warm russian bar. With snowflakes falling outside on the old victorian era streetlamps.

felt comfortable for the first time in forever