Not much to say, except that every once in a while, life is really good. This would be one of those times. Which means I have nothing interesting to say. . .
Question: literature, stories, narratives, texts, whatever you want to call it, is most often and most successfully the relations of conflict, resolved or not. So the question is, is that necessary? Can you write a successfully entertaining anything--poem, short story, personal essay, blog--without that tension? I read through my journal last night. Anyone reading it will think that my life was the greatest melodrama of the twenty-first century. Which it isn't. Yet. But who honestly writes when life is just ordinary? It makes for a very boring read.
Point. Counterpoint. Bring it on.
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Um, well, er...having not written much since mid december...
yeah, have you ever seen a movie that was just supposed to be "a day in the life" and there wasn't really anything happening? no conflict. and the credits roll and the mellow bittersweet music is playing and you leave the theater and sort of sigh out a "huh." and then never think of it again. I'm not sure that my art has to have some elaborate or HUGE conflict in it, but there has to be some reason to write.
Kim Johnson would ask us what reason we have to break the silence. If you take writing something from the point of view that when you start, having written nothing, you have infinite possibility in front of you. The blank page could turn into anything. The minute you write a single letter the possibilities become finite, increasing as you write more and more and no body is even going to read this huge post. Maybe I'll just post the rest on my own dmmm blog. So anyway, the point was that you should have a good reason for reducing the infinite quality of your work. Don't waste time writing something you don't care about. That's all.
I wrote increase, but I meant decrease. THe possiblities decrease. Yeah. Peace.
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