The greatest thing about writing

[Daze]

The greatest thing about writing is not being sure where you’re going with this idea, and in the process, you figure it out. it takes trust in yourself. I did write outlines though, sometimes, mainly for my fiction. They probably keep thinking I’ll come back to writing. well, never say never.

[Jinx]

I have a snailmail correspondence with a cousin and write her as frequently as once a week. I cannot write fiction. I can’t really embellish real life stuff. I wrote autobiographical stuff for awhile. One night I wrote for four hours straight, rewriting and rewriting four pages. I thought of nothing else. After I finished I felt like I was gone and watched a YouTube movie from Showtime about crimes mentally ill people committed in the 1800’s in America. It was fun but I realized later the movie was discriminating against the mentally ill. But I was sicker back then trying still to destroy myself. I need to write what I know and try to embellish. I love to write and rewrite my letters sometimes four times. I had to learn to like it and I’ve given up on it many times. I had no natural talent for it.

[gene]

Hunter Thompson as a student took literature and transcribed it onto his typewriter. I think it was Dickens he transcribed. Anyway, I think he did it to feel what the original author was thinking and feeling while writing the piece. It served him well with Gonzo journalism and his Fear and Loathing series.