I want endless magazine subscriptions
I do odd things on my nights off--like reading Paris Review author interviews (I am such a sucker for interviews, memoirs, all of that personality-oriented stuff). Towards the end of an interview with James Thurber, I found something that is still quite relevant, though he was describing writing after the Great Depression (9/11 and the Iraq war seem to have created similar effects in some ways):
It's hard to write humor in the mental weather we've had, and that's likely to take you into reminiscence. Your heart isn't in it to write anything funny.
I think I might want to do a creative writing special studies next semester.
It's hard to write humor in the mental weather we've had, and that's likely to take you into reminiscence. Your heart isn't in it to write anything funny.
I think I might want to do a creative writing special studies next semester.