Talent is a poison.
Other people think it is great to make up all those stories but they don’t have to deal with the voices in the night.
Tag: writing
Addict
I used to be an addict.
Seven-thousand words when I hit bottom.
Novel
How is that novel going?
It is an ordinary so far.
Sentences
I found some old sentences.
Did I create them?
Yesterday
Yesterday I finished the first draft of a children’s book.
Today I have forgotten I wrote it at all.
Big fight
Me and me and the other me had a big fight about a story yesterday.
It’s been really awkward silence since then, mind-wise.
Stupid
How stupid to get addicted to writing.
I’ll never be free.
Marisel
I found the story I wrote for you.
Should I post “The Littlest Geneticist” or not?
Stories
The future me came back and read my stories.
Then he just laughed and laughed and laughed.
Frog
The frog is green.
That took eight years to write.
Kris
“I don’t get why micro-stories always have to shock or amuse or have a twist,” she said. “Me neither,” he said, putting the knife back in its sheath.
Writer
Saying you are a writer and being a writer is not the same thing.
One involves a lot of talk, the other involves a lot of bullshit.
Writing
Staring at my plate, waiting for inspiration.
I know – a story about … plates.
Judgment
Everything I’ve ever written could be titled “untitled”.
Every girl I’ve ever been with could be called “a shocking lapse in judgment”.
Publish
All the words over all the years piled up and rotted, becoming toxic.
When they were putrid enough, I published them.
Hence
Will the me of ten years hence look back and grimace?
I bet he’ll not like “hence” sitting there like a clod.
Jealous
She stepped over her fear and gave me some of her short stories to read.
They were really good but all I said was “did you used to be sad a lot?” because I was so jealous.
Longing
Once upon a time, there was a place called ever after that no one ever reached. In writing names and places, pain, joy, and distant faces, they tried in vain to show to others what their own eyes could not see.
Advice
No one cares you are writing a play or a novel or a script.
More advice to myself.
Writing tip
Being a writer mainly is about lying well.
Start with yourself, move to your friends and then the world!