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When life settings influence your inspiration
There was a time when a bird landing on one leg would prompt a pensive verse, when a drop sliding down a glass of iced water turned into an ocean under my magic pen, when an elderly couple holding hands summoned the avid poetess within. Today I stare at the fan. At a blank page, at empty walls that would’ve been filled with quotes and colorful visuals. An empty space used to send me searching for unique artistic expressions to grace the void that surrounds me today. My foggy brain and anxious hands can’t come to an agreement. But it’s about time an executive decision is made by, I’m afraid,…
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What It Takes to Be a Writer
This is kind of a follow-up to Don’t Hit the Brakes! – which I posted last year (last month, to be less dramatic). It’s just that I can’t get enough of the raw reality that is to be an author, or an artist who wants to sell. I’ll post the words again: You start writing the next one. And after you finish that one, you start on the next, and on and on. And that’s what it is to be a writer, honey. You just keep throwing them against the wall and hoping against hope that, eventually, something sticks. — Tick, Tick… BOOM (film about aspiring composer Jonathan Larson And…
