L
isten to it. This photograph feels like a song. For me, it’s a Steely Dan song. For others it’s probably something different.
It helps that Sunday afternoons — when I write Storyteller’s Monday post — is generally Steely Dan day. I usually listen to one or two albums will I develop, process and work on post production before I get ready to write.
When I write, I turn the music up louder. It works. I tried to listen to podcasts while I wrote. My words got confused with their words so I gave it up. For a while I tried listening to a podcast while I read something else.
Can you say word salad?
It sounded like a politicians trying to speak out of both sides of mouth at once. Or tweeting, or something like that.
Anyway, Steel Dan seems to work with this picture. I could drop lyrics anywhere into my so-called prose and it might make sense or certainly fit.
Drive west on Sunset…
Y
ou’d think this was some super duper post production thing.
Maybe a layer or two.
It’s not.
The entire image was made in camera. It was adjusted in post, but it wasn’t added to, subtracted from or layered on any way.
I swear.
Let’s talk about another technique.
Writing.
It seems brighter to me today. I suppose it helps that I drank a double espresso before I started writing.
The thing is, I’ve been sleeping too much. I’ll sleep for 9 or 10 hours, start reading and sleep for 2 or 3 more.
I suspect it’s simply the stress of these last 18 months leaving my body.
There could be worse ways.
STORYTELLER 
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