Creator Journals 9/13/25
Managed to fit a bunch of revisions in today. Last night I went out for ramen and saw the new Demon Slayer movie with my wife. It was a lot of fun, and it made me think about my own fight scenes, which are sort of in the same style as a traditional shonen anime.
My spiritual energy is very depleted today. I don’t feel joyful. Some days depression is like that. The world feels like a dark and vicious place to me. I’m weathering it by writing. I’m not escaping, but I am processing my thoughts through literary art.
There is a lot of good in the world, and a lot of evil. That’s what we’re all really writing about, isn’t it? That struggle to hold on to the light and diminish the power of darkness? I don’t know. I think I feel what T.S Eliot felt when he concluded “These fragments I have shored against my ruins.”
Rest up. Take care, and keep resisting. May the peace that surpasses all understanding envelope you.
Today’s writing tip: You can’t tell a good story if you haven’t suffered. Fortunately, everyone suffers.
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