Good Reads.

Going to Zero.

"After that, I started writing.

Initially there was a sense of urgency to my writing, what with what everyone said was The End approaching. Perhaps you would have noted that in the first few paragraphs before I revised it out.

"Hurry," I told myself. "The End is coming!"

But, after a period, this sense of urgency fell flat. It felt manufactured, fake.

"Urgency for what?," I asked. "For a reader? And for the reader to then do what? To criticize? Or worse, to praise?"

"Maybe," I later answered myself, which followed yet another revision, "the sense of urgency resides in simply finishing."

A long pause followed. I returned to doing nothing.

"No. There is no finishing," I told myself after a long time. "There's only The End."

And so what you read here, which at first, to a generous editor, may have seemed at least capable of being worked into a pacing with a sense of urgency, was revised to be flatter, more matter-of-fact, more chronicled, and then, later, revised to what you are reading now, which is none of those things."

- Kevin Depew