Jesse Lane

I wanna make a movement to have Instagram be the way it used to... before stories...before monetized reels... a snapshot of something in your day...

I need to get back to reading more - looking down at my fitbit today while reading, my heart rate was one of the lowest I've seen in a long time. Plus the mental escape, the learning of new words and turns of phrases, the build up and anticipation that you dont get in visual media, having to use your imagination to visualize the world the author is painting.. there's nothing better. And ive got a massive soft spot for old sci-fi

Recently slogged through the one on the right, and blew through the one on the left. One is by a behemoth in sci-fi, another was a random pick based on cover art and back page synopsis. The difference is staggering. Outdated language that wouldn't fly in the 60s let alone the 80s when it was published and a convoluted storyline that I struggled to comprehend even halfway through, or immersive world-building with vivid background laid out 3 pages into a 43 page short story...

I'm a completionist.. I refuse to not finish what I start, but the comparison between a well-written story and a poor one is stark and dramatic and that's what makes reading fun and unique. Seeing each author lay out their methodology of story-telling, of how granular they want to get or broad...

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