One of these days I swear I'm going to register in a self-help course like How to Cure Yourself of Creative Writing.
Of the writing of books there is no end, says Ecclesiaste the preacher.
And yet like some kind of trained seals, we persist, hoping, I suppose--for a seal-bottom seal?
What does it matter that the last five projects ended in disaster? Andalay, andalay! Keep hitting that piñata funny face. Crack its skull...Maybe go on crack!
One of these days the goodies will drop, as they once did before.
What does it matter that the doctor says I picked the wrong career, maybe even the wrong wife...At least the kids are great. But the scribbling, not so much.
And so, with half the faculties gone, one final novel. I swear, God it will be the last.
Let's see now:
I was born a child of the moon under a threatening sky, my parents themselves under the monstrous shadows of two competing dwarfs, Adolph Hitler and Joseph Stalin. The endless autobiography!
Heh. Will I one day thank God for an unhappy childhood?
Cindarella did drive out of the ashes once.
But I swear the sisty-uglers are going to win this round.
But the condition is golden. This I know.
It's just that the gilt is tarnished all to hell these days.
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The only cure I know for creative writing is paid work. Can you, perchance, eat fire? I know a guy who is hiring.
Yeah. Join the circus.
...Maybe even be shot out of a cannon.
(I'm sure they can use a man of my calibre. :)
They say, that a perfect prose(sic) is never written. Whenever an artist puts his creation , a lot is lost in the translation. So a writer is never satisfied with what he writes.
& He never will be. There is no such thing as "this will be my last book" . The last is never written
Mona,
I don't know why, but this is somehow encouraging.
Whoops!
That was from Chris.
I mean this:
ivan@creativewriting.ca: has left a new comment on your post "Here we go again":
Hi folks,
First, quick reminder that I'm doing a Drive-by Saviours reading this weekend, Sunday, May 22, 1:00 pm at Obsolete Records (2454 Agricola St) in Halifax. I'm one of four writers at this event. See full details at http://longlivethequeen.ca/?p=762 but please note the date is wrong on the website. It is definitely on May 22.
Second, I was on CKDU this week talking about various bookish and writing and environmental things. It's 50 minutes long but if you want some background blah blah blah while you work, the show is up at my blog at http://www.chrisbenjaminwriting.com/chris-benjamin-writing-blog/chris-benjamin-on-ckdu-s-the-book-club.
Third, I have a new book coming out in September! It's nonfiction. And you can check out the cover mock-up and blurb at http://www.nimbus.ns.ca/Store/CatalogItem/tabid/904/ProductID/6014/Default.aspx?txtSearch=atlantic+canadas.
Happy long weekend everyone!
Chris
or have cannon balls shot at your guts, like homer simpson.
sure is nice of u to pass on my missives.
Chris,
Yep. Like Homer Simpson. No longer young, no longer cool. Gotta geek it as cannon fodder at a circus, like Homer.
Actually, I have just put up a cartoon of Homer doing his shot-with-a cannon gig.
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