I'm looking at the two pieces I have posted here, and the two I have saved on my computer...and I think that they all suck to varying degrees. It's not that the ideas are terrible, I actually think that some of them are rather clever. It's not that the writing is terrible, I mostly cross my t's and dot my i's. It's just that the whole style is very mediocre. It's hackwork. It's not good enough to do what I'd like it to do, and it's not bad enough that I can learn from it. I just don't know what to fix, honestly.
I get online every couple of hours to look through what I have, or to try and find inspiration for something new. It never works out quite the way I want it to. I fix a few words, say something differently, even expand on my ideas, but I can't escape the fact that the more I look at my work, the more it sickens me. I don't know why I keep doing it, is it attention? Is it stress relief? Boredom?
About Me
- JJLW
- About Me: I'm John. Most of my friends call me Jack. I like to sleep, though I rarely do. I'm strangely attracted to women that remind me of Marla Singer. I thankfully actually date women who are a lot healthier, in body if not soul. I'm divorced. I'm a single parent. I'm either childlike or immature, depending on the person you ask. I used to be a hopeless pessimist about love. I then became a hopeless romantic about love. I'm currently a hopeless loser so far as romance is concerned. I'm taller than you, and that makes me a better person overall. I watch cartoons, I read Harry Potter, Dean Koontz, and comic books, and I can beat you up if you tease me about it. I'm a progressive masculist, but I like to feign misogyny from time to time. If you're a woman from age 20-40, even halfway attractive and fairly intelligent, I will probably want to jump your bones. I decide what is attractive and intelligent, though, so don't get your hopes up, if you're into fugly, dumb fellows such as myself. My goal in life is to become the trophy husband of some rich older woman. But I guess I'd probably be more like a participation ribbon.
1 comment:
It's probably attention. But nothing wrong with that! And if you ever feel bad, pick up the nearest literary classic and look at it, really look at the way it's written. Chances are - unless your taste is astounding and godlike - it's going to look rubbish. Look at anything too carefully, and it'll turn out to be rubbish.
Especially Virginia Woolf.
Go forth and write, you Blogger.
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