The author recounts their experience on a ferry journey and how it sparked their creativity to write a new story. The slower pace of travel by sea and the emotional state it evokes serve as the perfect conditions for storytelling.
I was on the same ferry from Cork to Roscoff when I started to write the story. It was a lovely, calm day in late summer, and I had almost sixteen hours ahead of me on the boat, and I realized I hadn’t written a story in ages. So I got my notebook out and started to try a few sentences. . . . I always think I know how to write a short story until I start a new one, and then the meltdown begins.
Could he imagine any identity for himself other than that of a suffering romantic? He’s never outgrown the image of himself as the swain, the young lover. But, the older he gets, this is a more and more difficult act to pull off, and we sense that he has become unmoored in life. The girl senses this, too. She can read him plainly: “There’s a kind of weird energy off you.
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