Writar Hero

This is good writing. It's about a kid playing Guitar Hero, which is interesting to me, but soon into the reading, I cared less about the subject matter and more about the writing. Good pacing, good build, good finish.

The writer comments on it at his blog. I would have guessed that this was blurted rather than crafted. For one thing, anyone with that much craft is not writing short essays for a gaming site. They're making money at it full time. But it also has an all-at-once feel to it, the kind I haven't had in a long, long time.

Everything I write any more is a work of labor, not of spirit. That's not a complaint -- I like working to succeed. But I also remember when words just fell out of my fingertips onto the keyboard, and people laughed and occasionally cried. I didn't know how I did it; it was as mysterious to me as it was to anyone else. But it was obviously good.

I'm glad to see it happen in front of me, even if I didn't do it.