I did absolutely nothing today.
Nothing.
I sat on our dog-stained couch in one of my newly crusty t-shirts
And stared directly into the wall in front of me
I thought of you
and for the 400th time replayed everysinglejoke
resaw every look and
rewrote our history
Honey,
I love the way racial slurs sound on your lips
you make dick jokes funny
I haven't giggled so hard since I was a baby
You may be more stick than human,
and look obnoxiously like Kermit the frog
but you're the nicest thing I've seen.
So I wonder in bed at night, still seeing your eyes,
Am I the only one left feeling empty?
Saturday, June 15, 2013
Thursday, June 13, 2013
Undoing Writer's Block
Okay, so all aspiring fiction writers know that moment. Your character is in the backseat of a car, lying in the backyard, waiting outside Taco Bell, and just doing, well, nothing. You try to get him/her to reflect on life or the story so far, but it comes out choppy and wrong, and they're left again in the same space, in the same moment, doing nothing but rotting. I've left my characters there for days, abandoned them there altogether, and I hope they died truly happy.
Now here's about getting them moving.
idea one: throw a rock at your character. It will make them stop in their tracks, rethink their sense of the world around them, and possibly get the story moving again.
idea two: introduce your character to a homeless person. I myself have always wanted to know their stories, and maybe your character's life could be changed for the better.
idea three: shoot them a text. Be a wrong number, a friend, or Hot Topic advertising another sale.
idea four: set them into a conversation you yourself have had recently. discuss with them how really the word "catastrophe" can be turned into "cat ass trophy"
idea five: have your character encounter a billboard that highlights something they want to change about themselves or those around them. Inspire them.... or just creep them out.
idea six: If nothing else works, a good idea would be to kill off your character's entire family. If that doesn't help them get out of the bathtub, I don't know what will.
Now here's about getting them moving.
idea one: throw a rock at your character. It will make them stop in their tracks, rethink their sense of the world around them, and possibly get the story moving again.
idea two: introduce your character to a homeless person. I myself have always wanted to know their stories, and maybe your character's life could be changed for the better.
idea three: shoot them a text. Be a wrong number, a friend, or Hot Topic advertising another sale.
idea four: set them into a conversation you yourself have had recently. discuss with them how really the word "catastrophe" can be turned into "cat ass trophy"
idea five: have your character encounter a billboard that highlights something they want to change about themselves or those around them. Inspire them.... or just creep them out.
idea six: If nothing else works, a good idea would be to kill off your character's entire family. If that doesn't help them get out of the bathtub, I don't know what will.
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