There's a village in my computer - friends, fans, readers, and colleagues. It's a populous, sometimes chaotic little burg always bustling with news, gossip, opinions and potential excitement.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I love the village in my computer. There's little validation in the day-to-day life of a writer; sometimes we ache for a connection.
I have lived most of my life in small towns, and I'm in the habit of knowing and talking to everyone.
When strangers start acting like neighbors... communities are reinvigorated.
I find my characters and stories in many varied places; sometimes they pop out of newspaper articles, obscure historical texts, lively dinner party conversations and some even crawl out of the dusty remote recesses of my imagination.
I live in New York, but I still get the village gossip. My apartment is a crash pad for so many Singaporean cousins and friends.
A lot of my writer friends live near me, and that makes people think we just hang around with one another in cafes, trading work and discussing 'Harper's' and what not. But I rarely see them. We're home working.
The times in my life I've felt the most alive is when I'm having a connection with people. We need to hack cities in a way to bring back that community culture.
For some reason, it is always thrilling to spot your home town in the news.
What we've tried to do is have neighbors, colleagues, friends and family talking.
Setting up a community and seeing what happens to it when the megalomaniacs get busy: that's my main preoccupation.
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