Gabe 6: Douglas Adams-y Stories

I enjoy writing. I don’t enjoy the amount of work that goes along with writing. Even in a short blog post like this, it takes too much time and mental effort to think of a concept to write about and then to actually commit it to words for me to enjoy it.

I enjoy writing the most when I have no plan or concept or inkling of an idea of what I’m going to write about. It’s sort of like a stream of consciousness, except instead of writing exactly what I’m thinking about at that moment, I try to write a story, incorporating anything that pops into my head while writing. The result is an unexpectedly hilarious story full of twists and turns and surprisingly a semblance of a plot.

It’s very reminiscent of the style of Douglas Adams. If you’re not familiar, he’s an author of science-fiction comedy books like The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (which happens to be of my favorite books of all time, go read it). His work is famous for taking the story in the absolute opposite direction the reader expects, which is exactly what I strive to do in my stream-of-conciousness-esque writings.

Whenever I write like this, I find myself feeling mentally refreshed and de-stressed afterwards. It’s like having a mental garbage truck that drives around and picks up all the trash that piles up over the day and then empties them out onto a paper in the form of a rambling, nonsensical story.