How Long Is 600 Words Novels & Stories

18 May 2021 Herein lies the greatest challenge of introducing a collection of essays written over a period of six (6) long years. A duration long enough for a child to be born alive, walk unassisted, speak fluently and think intelligibly. But after six (6) years of occasional writing, it suddenly stopped. Work took the better of it as if there was nothing there to strike a chord and tell me that I used to write as spirited as before.

Six years. The words landed with the specific weight of a thing that had been in motion for a long time and had finally arrived at rest. Not life. Not the indeterminate stretch of consequence I had feared in the worst hours of the preceding months. Six years. A finite and concrete duration that my mind, trained by decades of measurement and calculation, immediately began converting into days, into structure, into the particular territory of what would be required to move through it and come out the other side.