Chapter 35

I really want to know what my strengths and weaknesses are, and how close I'm getting to the "good words". I can tell I'm still imitating others styles, but am starting to gain preferences of my own and can kinda see where I might end up once I become "good".

Here is a google docs link, but since it's pretty short I'll also just post the whole text below

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1p8duAsvupGrUnKQusgeN1WX7aEZQLNZ1_zglyt7c32E/edit?usp=sharing

The ground opened up today. This is New Jersey, earthquakes aren’t supposed to happen here, but they happen everywhere now.

A big laceration, spanning 3 or 4 blocks, buildings that used to be 15 ft apart are now separated by 30 ft and a big gaping abyss. It feels like something unnatural, if you look over the edge it’s just pure darkness, and if you throw a big rock down there you never hear it hit the bottom, just silence.

The adults are irate, traffic is all messed up now.

A few weeks ago in New York, there was one 2 miles long, thousand