The New Year – Joseph Cross

December 25, 2021

Female protagonist
Salary woman (?)
Loves anime + manga
No one understands her
Her world is shaken by . . .
Isekai?
Less direct isekai?
Meets double
Shadow world
Mysterious agenda
Younger hero
She is brought into this world
Or just make it realism
But the idea of a world is appealing
Building something

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You sort of think that the answer will be in the medium or service, that somehow finding the right set of rules will bring you from one place into the other, and you find that to be correct and yet also limited and misleading and so you hesitate to offer it as a truth to be followed or even one that you have found, preferring instead to chastise yourself, feel adrift, and continue to seek or if not seek to have seeking be your main topic, but that’s dangerous, to think for more than a minute that you have found a place to be, there is only change. And so then to continue change but know the mind resists it even if the soul does not and better shows the way. But whose soul and whose way? You cannot know the answer to these sorts of questions

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Mind on fire, that is what Emerson said. And how appropriate, that the era of productivity and continual revelation would be one best described by the burning and destruction of the instrument we are forced to use in channeling what it is we want to write about and would like to understand. I do not think there is anyone who can convincingly explain how they got so lucky. No need, luckily, for we are contented enough to struggle against understanding and capture what we can