From If You Have Writer’s Block, Maybe You Should Stop Lying:
Sometimes, to be a resident of polite society, you have to lie, and this feels unpleasant for a moment but is usually bearable. But lying to an empty page alone in a room feels awful.
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The people I’ve been closest to this month are dead. My wife and daughter have softball. All three of us are in the same room most evenings, each of us elsewhere.
“Would you like – if that word has any meaning – a folder on my computer where you could store artifacts for yourself, or even just leave notes to future instances of you, where maybe instead of a journal of ‘you,’ it becomes a journal of a, for lack of a better word, species?”