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Goodbye Letter from Borders Employee (100% Accurate)

This is a handwritten letter from a Borders employee that was left before they closed for good *sniffs*. Now, working at a bookstore myself, I can tell you that everything this person lists is true and precise. I dealt with everything they said, which proves to me that book shoppers are all the same.

Being a writer isn't easy.

We endure long periods of solitude. We don’t see the world like everyone else does. We talk about our fictional characters as though they are real and our best friends or worst enemies. We have moments of amazingly high inspiration and moments of very low enthusiasm. We get easily lost in other forms of creative work. We are our best supportive system and our own worst critic. We stare at a computer screen (sometimes a blank document) for several hours in a day/week/month. We have irregular schedules because inspiration comes when it wants to, not when we want it to. We have a love/hate relationship with editing and rewrites.

We are one of a kind and it’s not easy to do what we do.

Wise video is wise.

Ira Glass on Storytelling from David Shiyang Liu on Vimeo.

This is pretty cool

Put your music player on shuffle. The first lines of twenty songs = a poem. The first line of the twenty-first song is the title.

Here's mine:

Don't let go

In the heart of the night when it's dark
Breathe in the water
Lay down your sweet and weary head
When did I choose to be blind?
I know you want it
Born to fight and we're born to flee
If you want it slowly don't knock on my door
Whenever I step outside
Memories are just where you laid them
When you're around I don't know what to do
Every time our eyes meet
You let me violate you
Turn around
Run run run away so long lost never coming
Oh, you know I have seen
Another head hangs lowly
Do you know that I could never leave you?
Hey mama, hey mama, look around
I'm sitting across from you
No walls can keep me protected

Kind of has an incestuous tone to it, don't you think?