Write Because You Have To

It's a funny thing to do, maintain a blog that you know about 6 people in the entire country, let alone planet read. Granted, their is that outside chance that someone googles a sentence that is exactly what I wrote (which would be perverse) and I want to meet them. That anomaly would land them on my blog, which would of course capture them for years to come. That is also to say that my writing will extend to years to come and my narcissistic belief that people give a shit about my thoughts and observations prevails beyond next week.

Right now I am working through that worst part of writers block...that technique of just blabbing on for three or so paragraphs until something intelligent, or better yet, funny comes to mind. But, my point is, and this could just be me, but we all have big ideas for our writing. Even those who write in a diary about their boyfriend who plays basketball and you think he kept glancing to the third row, you were in the 6th, want people to see their masterpiece. I can promise you, about 7 people in the world would give a shit about that little writeup, because they wrote the same exact pathetic thing in their sepia tone diary their therapist gave them to "work things out." We have high hopes, and aspirations that our diary, blog, novella, sestina, haiku, or purple prose will make it into the mainstream book store shelves or ibooks front page, most downloaded.

They likely wont, Shakespeare you will be not, for now. Thoreau, Emerson, Keats, Carlos, Bukowski, King, Rowling...took a while for the flame to burn high enough that someone else saw it from the corner of their desk. That didnt mean they stopped pushing out content. They persevered, they outlasted the writers block, and abolished the critics words. Now, writing is not for everyone, and I understand that. Some people cannot spell or articulate, let alone write a well constructed paragraph. I am sure they have a talent that I cannot compete with. But, if you can wirte, write because you have to. Words are strong and people can read them over again. If you just say something, people may hear it, they may forget it, they may even jot it down in their notebook...wrongly. Write. If you are writing the correct way you will feel the pressure behind your eyes build as you write a sad letter, that has nothing to do with your life, but a character you constructed. If you writing humorously and correctly you will laugh briefly, but more importantly you will want someone to read it, just like showing them a youtube video of two fat fucks slipping off a log. Write because you have a literary obligation as a skilled informant with the weapon of words to tell your story, true or not.

Words are tangible, but they can be manipulated, and sentences can be structure with as much truth, or falsities as you desire. Write, because you have to. You may remembered by the trail of words you leave behind.