That's What Editors Are For

that's what editors are for

A big thing that keeps me from writing is that I genuinely detest my prose. For a long time this caused me some angst because although I genuinely detest my prose I also genuinely feel that my personality and the way that I think is particularly suited for writing, for creating dramatic other worlds. I’ve written about this before, about the inability to tell whether it’s watching so many movies and reading so many books that makes me so dramatic, or whether it’s this need for drama and romance and passion that both makes me want to seek movies and books as a source of drama as well as escape the world that rejects my dramatic nature.

But in spite of all of this I’ve still started to write. I realized that the reasons I think my writing veers towards the “visual” and “cinematic” are also the reasons why I should keep writing prose. I think I’ve got a good grasp of compelling thematic elements, vivid characters (because I just mix & mash from my own life), interesting stories, and good dialogue (again, because I rewrite conversations I’ve had as well as the conversations I crazily imagine myself happening).

I HAVE to be a writer, I HAVE to, I HAVE to. Otherwise what the fuck is all that energy that I spend on my vivid fantasies for?

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1870s earrings via Lang Antiques

OR BOOKS OR COLLEGE

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SUBMIT

Even though the title of their blog is SLIGHTLY MISOGYNISTIC,

I'm totally down for a bunny park party. 

Ah love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.

Matthew Arnold, from "Dover Beach"

I'm not sure if I like the sentiment or if it's just that after reading 20 poems along the same theme in a row, a new idea just jumps out at me.  I think I like the emphasized lines, though. 

It's so hard not to cheat

When it feels so good