Time Flies · 9:46pm Mar 13th, 2014
Dear Princess Celestia,
Today I learned that writing can be even more absorbing than reading. I've ended up with my nose in a book for hours, but even with a book I know I can't put down I've tended to have a decent sense of the passage of time. The last few days writing Plans Change, though, has really reminded me that no matter how great a world reading may drag me into, nothing compares to the pure, overwhelming imaginative pleasure of writing. Twice today I've sat down to write and looked up five minutes later to find that half an hour has passed; I can be so caught up in the story I'm telling that I don't even know the world around me is moving on.
At the end of the day, I'm not sure if it is better to spend long hours absorbed into a fictional world whilst telling a story or whether it would be best if I could keep just slightly grounded in reality. What I do know is that this feeling is addictive, and a part of me just doesn't want to stop writing, even though I know I ought to. I do hope that this will help to deal with the evil that is procrastination.
Your faithful student,
Quill Scratch
