"So write, Elissa Bassist. Not like a girl. Not like a boy. Like a motherfucker."
So I actually stumbled onto this blog post through a parenting blog I read regularly (Raising My Boychick, in case you're interested), and I found it really inspiring, as a vidder. I thought the writers and vidders (and other artists!) on my list might enjoy it as well. Some personal highlights (replace 'writing' with 'vidding' and you'll see what I saw):
But I’d finally reached a point where the prospect of not writing a book was more awful than the one of writing a book that sucked.
and:
I’d finally been able to give it because I’d let go of all the grandiose ideas I’d once had about myself and my writing-so talented! so young! I’d stopped being grandiose.
(A moment to say - wow, this is totally what killed my desire to write when I was in my early 20s. Fascinating to see it now in retrospect.) And:
You’re up too high and down too low. Neither is the place where we get any work done.
(True, true, true. If I get wrapped around the twin axles of 'this has to be the BEST VID EVER' and 'I am the WORST VIDDER IN HISTORY,' I get stuck, every time.) And:
We get the work done on the ground level. And the kindest thing I can do for you is to tell you to get your ass on the floor.
and
Writing is hard for every last one of us-straight white men included. Coal mining is harder. Do you think miners stand around all day talking about how hard it is to mine for coal? They do not. They simply dig.
Good stuff, IMO.
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But I’d finally reached a point where the prospect of not writing a book was more awful than the one of writing a book that sucked.
and:
I’d finally been able to give it because I’d let go of all the grandiose ideas I’d once had about myself and my writing-so talented! so young! I’d stopped being grandiose.
(A moment to say - wow, this is totally what killed my desire to write when I was in my early 20s. Fascinating to see it now in retrospect.) And:
You’re up too high and down too low. Neither is the place where we get any work done.
(True, true, true. If I get wrapped around the twin axles of 'this has to be the BEST VID EVER' and 'I am the WORST VIDDER IN HISTORY,' I get stuck, every time.) And:
We get the work done on the ground level. And the kindest thing I can do for you is to tell you to get your ass on the floor.
and
Writing is hard for every last one of us-straight white men included. Coal mining is harder. Do you think miners stand around all day talking about how hard it is to mine for coal? They do not. They simply dig.
Good stuff, IMO.
This entry was cross-posted at my Dreamwidth account. Please comment here or there. (
comments at DW)