For writers and other artists, weirdness is a virtue
Do you ever write something and think, This will never fly? That it’s just too weird to share?
Same here. My notebooks, laptop, Notes app, and Google docs are stuffed with ideas that may or may not become stories.
Continue reading “The call of the weird”Writing should not be drudgery
Sometimes, we writers take ourselves too seriously. We’re so busy writing and revising, polishing our jewels of poetry and prose to a high gloss, obsessively monitoring book sales or social media likes, and fretting over audience reaction — will anyone read it? will it even get accepted? — that we forget to enjoy the exciting, invigorating process of the creative act.
We would do well to heed the guidance of Sgt. Hulka from the comedy Stripes and “lighten up, Francis.”
Maybe I’m just giving myself a pep talk here. Maybe no on else takes themselves so seriously. Or maybe you’ve got those worrisome thoughts of perfectionism crawling around in the back of your mind like a cluster of spiders (I envision the daddy long legs variety: creepy but ultimately harmless).
Continue reading “Let’s have fun with it”
Andy writes! 