Faster than the speed of anyone

[drwex]

And for that brief moment where it’s all flaring and welding together, you are Holy. You can’t be touched. Something impossible and brilliant has happened and suddenly you understand what it would be like if Einstein’s brain was placed into the body of a young tyrannosaur, stuffed full of amphetamines and suffused with Sex Radiation.

-- Warren Ellis, on what writing is like. http://www.freakangels.com/?p=42&page=4

Comments

[jacflash.livejournal.com]

Yes, pretty much.

Or, rather, there are relatively short bursts of that surrounded by long stretches of head-feeding, idle web-surfing, mildly fearful stalling, and hard writer's-block-be-damned pounding out of one word after another like a POW on a forced march across Bataan, one foot after the other no matter what, not daring to twitch or complain lest that nasty little Japanese corporal hit me in the head with his rifle butt again, or worse.

It's not exactly an easy way to make a living, but I can no longer seriously imagine doing anything else.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

He's right.