For The Freaks

 One of the questions I ask myself before I write anything is ‘what will other people think of this?’ ‘Will they like it?’ ‘Will they think it is stupid?’ ‘Will I come across in a bad light?’ These are all the wrong questions to ask. These won’t help me be honest and they certainly won’t help me become a better writer. Should anyone? During the last few weeks when I was in counseling a lot of things came up that I realized were affecting the way I lived. An incident from my childhood was triggered in my memory that I am still peeling away the layers of. To cut a long story short, I discovered that this memory had affected me...

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Showing Up

I have been staring at a blank page for a couple of hours now trying to muster up some words, any words, they don't even have to be that coherent. But alas I have failed in my task. My masterpiece has alluded me today. My Pulitzer winning piece did not materialise. But... I DID show up. I came prepared to do the work. And tomorrow morning I will show up again. And maybe no words will appear again. But I have to believe they will. But even if not, I will show up the next day, and then the next, and then the next.... So show up today. Then tomorrow. Be prepared to work for your art. But don't worry if you fail. It will come. As long as you show keep showing up.... Your art will show ...

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PISSED OFF!

I read some advice at the weekend about not writing while you are angry. This doesn’t sound like good advice to me. If one doesn’t write while they are angry should we resist from writing when we are sad, depressed, melancholic or joyous? It seems to me the best art comes from a myriad of emotions. I haven’t written on my blog for a long while. Very sporadically actually but recently when I have sat down to write I seem to be always drawn back to creativity or thoughts on why we sit and muster up images, words or semitones in our head and I have come to the simple conclusion on why millions of us do this on a daily basis. Because you need to. You don’t really have a choice. You need to create new things. You need to continue to explore the endless possibilities that art holds.  ...

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