It's been a good year and six months since my last post. . . Which was only the second one ever. . . And so I figured it was time to throw some shit up on here again. So, here I am at the computer, with, thank the Gods, a daunting and horrific blank screen, because the beautiful and exciting colors that I had here as I wrote before, were WAY too happy and distracting. Finally, I may be able to get some work done! Jesus Freaking Criminy! Man, I love free writes. this is how we do, just runnin my mouth, or perhaps more accurate would be to say runnin my fingers, because although this is off the top of the head, stream of consciousness you are being blessed with, but it is going from Cerebral Cortex electric pulses, straight to the fingers pounding away at the lap keyboard. It doesn't get much closer to raw brain activity than that, my friends.
So here is a new thought doing circles upstairs that I really began to formulate or perhaps rather, solidify or answer tonight as I was laying in the bathtub, drinking some red wine from transylvania, YEP, Transylvania. I am always dumbfounded by all the drunk ass writers who have been so good and prolific whether that be post mortem or luckily while they are still alive. I just don't get how they have been able to write so much and get so good, being such freaking DRUNKS! I for one, love to drink and let the creative juices flow, but that only works to a very short, certain extent and then I start to get distracted, and lazy and before you know it, I haven't read anything of value or written anything at all. I try and try and try and procrastination always wins out!
Well, tonight it hit me: Papa Hemmingway didn't have Facebook, neither did Bukowski. While they were getting wasted at the bar all they had to do was write all night long rather than Facebook check in and stalk while they sipped their rum and whiskey. The point is, as we all already know, is to write write write! And if you aren't writing, then figure out what the EFFF is keeping you from writing? Oh you don't have time lately, you say. You have been sooo busy! And yet, you have time to check or update your FB two, three, eight hours a day! That's right folks, the very thing (technology) that is allowing us unprecedented access to careers we only dreamt of before, is what also keeps us forever away from it! GET off line and start writing!!! It does not matter how mundane, hollow or silly. Just write, eventually, whether you like it or not, you will write something or DO something worthy of recognition, notice, and a proof you are bettering yourself, even if only to yourself!
TBC...
So here is a new thought doing circles upstairs that I really began to formulate or perhaps rather, solidify or answer tonight as I was laying in the bathtub, drinking some red wine from transylvania, YEP, Transylvania. I am always dumbfounded by all the drunk ass writers who have been so good and prolific whether that be post mortem or luckily while they are still alive. I just don't get how they have been able to write so much and get so good, being such freaking DRUNKS! I for one, love to drink and let the creative juices flow, but that only works to a very short, certain extent and then I start to get distracted, and lazy and before you know it, I haven't read anything of value or written anything at all. I try and try and try and procrastination always wins out!
Well, tonight it hit me: Papa Hemmingway didn't have Facebook, neither did Bukowski. While they were getting wasted at the bar all they had to do was write all night long rather than Facebook check in and stalk while they sipped their rum and whiskey. The point is, as we all already know, is to write write write! And if you aren't writing, then figure out what the EFFF is keeping you from writing? Oh you don't have time lately, you say. You have been sooo busy! And yet, you have time to check or update your FB two, three, eight hours a day! That's right folks, the very thing (technology) that is allowing us unprecedented access to careers we only dreamt of before, is what also keeps us forever away from it! GET off line and start writing!!! It does not matter how mundane, hollow or silly. Just write, eventually, whether you like it or not, you will write something or DO something worthy of recognition, notice, and a proof you are bettering yourself, even if only to yourself!
TBC...
