Me: I am NOT doing the fiction project. I have come to terms that it is just another project that I'll give up on, and I'm sick of giving up on things. I know that I'm just going to get excited for it the first couple days I have my book, and then I'll toss it in the corner and forget about it until the day before it is due. Then I'll rush through and I'll hate the finished project. Embarrassed with my work, I won't send it in and it will be a glorious waste of $25.
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Abbey: Okay, first of all, I can't believe you gave up the Fiction Project for SUSHI. That is an abomination. And how is $25 dollars a glorious waste? Maybe it's a glorious waste for a ten year old, or a hobo in Detroit. But at some point or another you're going to have $25 dollars again, and you're going to have Sushi again. But one opportunity you're not going to have thrown at you every so often is the Fiction Project. I'm just saying, Gina, you're becoming way too ... intimidated by this. You know that someone out there is going to do it better than you, and you don't want that, so you're not going to stick to it. That's what you always do. If you're not the best, or in the running of being the best, you give up. Because if you can't reach perfection with what you're doing, you don't want to try at it at all. How is that any way to live? Maybe you should use this as a way to break free from that. Here is an opportunity before you, and no, you're not going to excel at it, but no one is asking you to excel at it. This is not a competition. You have to stop viewing everything as one. I can't persuade you into doing it, but I'm telling you, if you change your mind ... this would be good for you. AND YOU DO HAVE A LOT TO SAY YOU JUST THINK THAT EVERYONE ELSE IS GOING TO SAY IT BETTER THAN YOU SO YOU'RE ACTING LIKE MOTHERFUCKING ARIEL LETTING YOUR VOICE SLIP AWAY AND YOU DON'T WANT THAT, DO YOU? SO SPEAK, JUST FUCKING SPEAK
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