There will be no rant tomarrow due to the fact I'll be working on another project most of the evening.
I love to see the banter in the comments I really do. Do you have any questions for me the author? We authors do like questions, except when people ask for money. We hate when people ask for money, that is our line.
Rant
I’m not much in the mood to rant today. I’m really in the mood to write. With all my projects in the air lately I’ve had little enough time to actually sit down and write. Original writing as defined by Mark Twain is “Hiding Sourcesâ€. Twain’s philosophy has long shaped my own in the matter of writing. Since, from the point of view of a writer, the ideal time to live was 5,000,000 BC before ever idea in the world was taken and written down. (Can you image what it was like to have had the original idea for a story where a dark lord abducts a princess?????) Since we live several million years later however we’ve forced to try and essentially re-organize the elements of storytelling in an attempt to escape cliche and lawsuits and create some original material.
Writing is very difficult not the sense the writing things is difficult, but in the sense that I like everything I write making me a terrible judge of the quality of my own work. Consequently most great writers have editors who remove all the gobs of crap from there work keeping the public under the delusion that say Steven King can write something the rest of us can’t. (Seriously X-men did the psycho teen girl with telekinetic powers about a thousand times before King go around to Carrie.) A word of advice don’t us a friend as a editor unless you don’t really like them that much. When picked an editor find someone brutal who may or may not dislike you as you want as brutal an editor as possible, someone you are not afraid to fight tooth and nail with, someone who is blunt as possible with no regards from your self-esteem who will not hesitate to tell you even the most awful truths. I use my Mom.
My mother works well because she brutally honest and I return the favor.
Mom: Husband how does this look Dad (Who is color blind): I love it Mom: Nick what do you think. Nick: It has color I hate it and it totally out season, I loath that outfit with ever fiber of being, it is a shade of pink reserved for the insides of road kill after a hot afternoon………….. Mom: But since you wear more black and red then Johnny Cash and Lucifer combined I’ll wear this one anyway. Me: ………….wear the purple earnings with it, they will tie the scarf to the outfit. Mom: Thank you!
This has been a time tested and proven relationship
At 5 Years Old Me: Can be president on the united states? Mom: Only if you’re a married white protistan. Me: ……….Dad can I be a millionare when I grow up? Dad: Only if I can live in the pool house.
At 7 Years Old Me: Mom is there a Santa Claus? Mom: No Me: *Cries for 20 minutes* What about the Easter Bunny Mom: Nope Me: *Cries more*
At 10 Years Old Me: Mom are you pregnant again? Mom: Yes your going to have another little brother. Me: *Cries for 20 Minutes*
At 14 Years Old Me: Mom I got the lead in the play! Mom: That means you going to have to study really hard for the next 4 weeks. Me: ……………………………..I didn’t think of it like that………………………..
At 19 Years Old Me: Mom, this I great I’m going to vote. Under this guys program I won’t have to work past 30 Mom: That is just propaganda, they won’t change anything because it they solve your problems and you’ll vote for the otherside next time. Me: But they promised……………………….and they had buttons.
Me at 23 Me: ………………… Mom: Was there something you wanted to ask me? Me: NO! No. Nonononononononononnononononono. Brother: Am I skinny? Me: You are 102 lbs soaking wet, you would be skinny for an anorexic mongoose in the desert. Brother: *Cries* Mom: You are so mean.
Well give your parents a break once in a while everyone (but just an arm of leg), I’m off to get rid of every book I’ve ever read (Who is this Mark Twain of which you speak?).
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