You Know, Writing is Just Socially Acceptable Schizophrenia.
So I got back roughly half an hour ago from a play called "Bus Stop" performed by MSU Summer Circle Theater. It was really cool. Some interesting parts include:
One of the characters talking about love and the idea that love really doesn't exist, and everyone only tells kids that because they're too scared to explain that it doesn't exist. So people who grow up have to figure it out on their own.
Another character ends the play with the line, "Some people just are left out in the cold." It was really powerful.
Seeing something like this makes me realize why I want to write something so badly, and why I want that something to be monumentous, if only for a few people. If I can reach someone the way this play did, or the way some books do, or the way movies and musicals do, then I can feel like I've made a mark in the world.
I think I've started to break writer's block. The vague hovering cloud of ideas is clarifying into something concrete, something that I can just hack at until words come pouring out.
I wrote a two page story the other day in about an hour, and I'm not even sure if it's that good, in fact I don't think it's that good at all, but I'm so excited to be writing again.
I am in love with writing.
One of the characters talking about love and the idea that love really doesn't exist, and everyone only tells kids that because they're too scared to explain that it doesn't exist. So people who grow up have to figure it out on their own.
Another character ends the play with the line, "Some people just are left out in the cold." It was really powerful.
Seeing something like this makes me realize why I want to write something so badly, and why I want that something to be monumentous, if only for a few people. If I can reach someone the way this play did, or the way some books do, or the way movies and musicals do, then I can feel like I've made a mark in the world.
I think I've started to break writer's block. The vague hovering cloud of ideas is clarifying into something concrete, something that I can just hack at until words come pouring out.
I wrote a two page story the other day in about an hour, and I'm not even sure if it's that good, in fact I don't think it's that good at all, but I'm so excited to be writing again.
I am in love with writing.