What's going on in my head...what's going on in my head...? I have no idea.
Right now I feel like I'm totally falling apart.
I feel so uncomfortable around my mom, especially when her new husband is around.
I've started two new poems and I know they're nowhere near done and that's frustrating, and I just finished commenting on a friend's blog where she complained of starting new poems and not having more than three lines each and I told her to relax and that it happens to me, but what do I do?
And as I just expressed to a few online friends, I'm feeling rather overwhelmed (and when I hear that word in my head all I can remember is a line from a movie of course I don't remember the name now...'I know you can be overwhelmed and you can be underwhelmed, but can you just be whelmed?')...anyway, moving on...I'm feeling overwhelmed, I want to listen to every song I love but like all at the same time...and I want to fucking WRITE but I'm STUCK!!!
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You don't want to write... you want to touch your pen to the page and scribble a masterpiece in five minutes as though possessed by the spirit of Hemingway or something. It don't work that way, at least not for the normal population. Writing is like fucking (but oh, isn't everything?); You start out with a goal--completion, satisfaction, ultimately--and a few ideas of how you want to get there, or complete trust and submission to your partner (your creativity, your muse). You do what feels right without thinking too hard about logistics (or how funny you look with your knees by your ears and your tongue hanging out), because if you do that you'll lose the feeling. If a particular position is doing nothing for you, try a new one. If you get so frustrated that you lose your desire altogether, let it go; you have tomorrow night, next Friday night, whatever. Go back to it later. Not every session fucking rocks, and some of your best shit will take forever to write. Dude. Trust me.
I do trust you, and yes I do want to write not necessarily create a masterpiece though if I could have that outcome each time, wow!
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