Writing: Hard

Lately I’ve been taking a break from recreationally coding to try and do writing projects and god damn, it’s noticeably harder to write a lot of words when they’re intended to manipulate emotions rather than variables

Like, I think we all imagine ourselves imaginative and creative but then if you start actually exhaustively cataloguing your own ideas you quickly discover that most of them are not terribly original and there are a lot less of them than you’d thought there would be