Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Sometimes

I come here to this black page and I just furrow at it for a while. Or I giggle at it a bit. Or I stare at it blankly and then page-away to some web comic or other. And sometimes that's as far as it gets.

Other times I just start putting words down. Whatever pops into my head. Like now - writing about what I write about and how.

Most of the time it just falls out in full sentences. Some silly phrase or crazy metaphor that's been dry humping my occipital lobe. Sometimes it just springs up around some extemporary word I’ve been dying to use.

It’s the last part that is most difficult though. When i look back over and say yes or no. Publish or draft. Live or die. Inflict or retract. Is it interesting at all to anyone other than myself? Does anyone on the other side of this keyboard give a flying fuck? Do I?

And its the answer to that last question that invariably tips the scales.

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