"You can do more to destroy these enemies with tape recorders and video cameras than you can with machine guns...However, it is difficult to convince a revolutionary that this weapon is actually more potent than gelignite or guns."

– William S. Burroughs

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Hear me out. An Echo And The Bunnymen chamber.

Depressed me: “I must write vividly about the darkness that inhabits my soul so I may revisit it with clear eyes should the cloud of dread someday dissipate.”

Me finding the writing 3 months later: “Woah, spooky.”

Bluesky is an Eco chamber

Being a perfectionist in your writing is the default setting for new writers. We all start that way. But when you’re building a house, you don’t paint it as you go. You lay a foundation, build a structure, put in the wiring & pipes, build the walls and lay the floors, THEN you can think about paint.

This is still my advice: Become a writer anyway. Fuck it, do it, it won't save you, but it's still a beautiful dream to write novels and short stories and poems and mingle with other dreamers and make art and laugh in the face of death. And writing is constant death. Live más.

I mentioned my green Penguins earlier; here’s the collection as pictured a couple of years ago.

Reminder that while bookshop.org is amazing and you should be directing your online book sales there, I'll echo others and say that for small publishers, one of the most impactful things you can do is buy directly from our website, putting money in our bank account today for operations.