Writing

Today I was looking through a bunch of stuff I wrote in college. Some of it is pretty good; most of it is not. The poetry is especially atrocious (I use the phrase "warm summer night" a lot.) There are maybe a half a dozen poems that okay. Two of the poems were actually published, which amuses me because they were poems that I wrote as a joke when I was bored in my anthropology class. I guess that means that I write my best stuff when I'm not trying? Well, I haven't been trying at all since I graduated from college, and of course I have nothing to show for it.

So I am going to start trying again. I used to be a very creative person and I'm really not sure that I am anymore, and that's kind of sad. As my faithful readers know, I took a fiction writing class a couple of years ago but I didn't write anything that I liked. I know you have to write a lot of crap before you turn out something good, but I've never been a fan of revising stuff. I always wanted my first draft to be my final draft. I think it's really just that I'm lazy.

So look for more frequent posts from now on - the more I write, the better chance I will turn out something I like. I can at least write something better than this, which I'm embarrassed to admit I got sucked into for a short time this afternoon. Charles Durning as a matchmaking Santa? I just couldn't turn away.