Opinions, and on the basis of these, I would like to write a few things down and have you pay (insert the appropriate currency conversion of you country for the $25 too many fools have paid for Paris Hilton’s book) at the register. How much is your sympathy worth? All we want to do is write and if not for a living, if we could please have a few hours a week in absolute peace to do this thing, to jot it all down ’cause someone needs to be keeping some kind of record. In fact, keep your contracts and your bureaucracy, I will figure out a way to break the barrier of space/time continuum and follow the approach of love and need and want and sex have something to do with your achievements. This is what I do and someone will let me know how horrible it is and how I’m polluting those very few minds left that enjoy and appreciate the literary word -don’t want to be rude, but those intelligent folk can spare me their criticism, I understand what kind of writer I am! I’m that misplaced gen-xer with delusions of grandeur and success, someone who worked exclusively at coffeehouses for five years on the same thing and the same idea of people she no longer knows… but I must write about them, or at least the people they used to be when they touched my life as complex yet fleeting muses. Someone who would have chosen painting or sculpting had the writing bug hadn’t bit her in the ass and continues to secretly believe that this little talent is enough to carry a dream. A blog is a diary is a journal, pink and frilly on the outside with a lock you can pick with a single hair, my talent lies in the things I’m not aware of being written, plots and fantasies I have lived and lost in my head and personifying heartbeats, seconds mount up fast. Waste no time on self-deprecation, leave those feelings for the mirror. I’m a writer as are you, want to know how? Well, do you need anything from the store? Write it out!
“The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.” -Karl Marx
