okay but i have problem merinda like it’s a medical problem i keep trying to write short fic and then 76k words later?!??
You’ve just got an imagination and want to dig deeper into these characters than 5k words will allow. You like to world build and throw stuff at your characters and see what happens.
My wife has been a life-long fan because her father is, they’ve been to several shows together. Growing up I wasn’t, how do I say, “allowed” to listen to anything secular, anything other than super christian music. So I missed out on a lot growing up. I met my wife in college and she introduced me to Bruce Springsteen and I don’t think either of us expected me to fall in love like I did. I think he’s as politically acute as Bob Dylan but with a poetry, a simultaneous yearning and freedom, that really speaks to the soul. I keep saying that Supernatural should be less Zeppelin, more Springsteen, because that cross-America late-night diner, highway-cruising, searching for hope because you’re riddled with regret vibe is HIS vibe.
and of course I have to add that my favorite quote about Springsteen is by John Stewart (a well known Springsteen dweeb):
When you listen to Bruce’s music, you aren’t a loser. You are a character in an epic poem … about losers
That’s the best quote. My mom’s from Jersey as well and I’m pretty sure she’s been a fan too. And yeah, the older and more kicked around by life I feel, the better Bruce gets.
lol. It’s true. I’m generally a pretty patient person (10 years of customer service will do that) and it takes a lot to truly make me angry. On the rare occasions I’ve got absolutely angry, I’ve totally snapped. Which I don’t like, but it has happened. But generally before you get to that point you’ll at least get an earful of I-was-in-the-navy-and-can-curse-like-it.
