I am like the invisible man, an empty bathrobe scuttling across the floor of forgotten rooms, smoking his cigarette to create a vague impression of definition, lost to himself and thus lost to the world.
In a recent post in his ongoing blog Bleeding Internally, my friend Jason Christopher wrote about the difficulty of writing in a naked and direct manner that is the essence of why Jason's voice is so valuable and needed in this world. Jason wrote: "Writing everyday is very difficult. Training yourself to actually sit at the computer and not watch porn, or gaze at some fantasy facebook life you have created for yourself is a lot harder than it looks. Especially writing every day. If you write like I do, it's just about what is in your head at that very moment. But if the moment hasn't changed in days, weeks, or even months. That story gets old for people who read your shit, and you can only imagine how tired I am of writing that I feel like a total loser. I'm not tired of feeling like that, that is a very comfortable place for me. I'm just tired of writing about it."
Jason Christopher having one of those Existential Moments in a Bathtub |
There are no answers to these questions tonight, but I know that I must go on a little more. I must go on a long time more because that is why I was put here on this planet and the job of this voice is to write.
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