half past nomad

He looked over my writing, reading carefully as his style was. I gave him his time; he took less then 10 minutes to read it all and proclaimed at the end:

Him: “Aha! I see what bothers you my friend. This is only a little of you here. Having met you, conversed several times with you, these differences are quite clear.”

Me: “I know. But I just wanted to hear it from an unbiased source. Do you notice how my writing is overlayed with sober, somber tones? Sure, those tones exist, but looking over my blog man, it seems as if that is all I am. A depressed maniac with a personality bordering on heroism. ” (I recall a copyright I read over at SH’s, to tell the readers of such occurrences).

Him: “I understand what you’re saying. When you write, you’re only expressing that small part of humanity inside of you. What is on your mind, flows out first. It is quite possible to write the rest as well you know. That is what you’re concerned about, am i correct in that assesment?”

Me: “Yeah, yeah I am. It’s just that since I’m trying to be more careful of my writing, most of it ends up taking a turn for the dramatic it seems. Take the wedding I went to last weekend. I’m still not done writing it since i’m trying to take a little extra time to write better perhaps. It’s in my MovableType’s draft entries, constantly being edited and written further therefore. It wasn’t a depressing wedding, heck it was an amazing time yet my writing in there too has drifted towards…I dunno…I just have to try harder I guess… but honestly, I believe that writing humour is one of the tougher types of writing”

Him: “Hmm…no, not really. All writing styles are equally hard. Take Poe for example. He was a miserable, sad, poor, starved unhealthy man with a ton of problems. His writing obviously screams that. Yet his audience doesn’t quite feel like that.”

Me: “Yeah but the writer-writing is only half the equation; the other half is audience-writing.”

Him: “You know, some writers would argue that writer-writing was the full equation itself. But never the less, tell me. Do you think you can procure a solution to this dilemma of yours my friend?”

Me: “… … yes, I should be able to. I just have to. Remember.”

Note: I couldn’t remember the exact conversation, but it had the gist I wrote of above. Secondly, I wanted to write out the conversation, rather then my personal thoughts on this topic, for this conversation is the raw edition of what exists within minds nomadic and my blog being recently re-created (in terms of objectives, etc etc), I wanted to make sure I was doing it right. Thirdly, I had these hamburgers for dinner and Mr Jones really knows his stuff. I mention the burgers because I’m hungry again and I don’t want chicken noodle soup anymore. Fourthly, the strawberry pie Mrs Jones baked for dessert, to put mildly, is mindblowing with a huge dab of whipped cream on top. If you’re ever in town and I can persuade her to make some, then let’s do coffee+pie. Lastly, don’t be too alarmed if we watch Tom&Jerry as we eat the pie.
G’night.

This entry was posted on Sunday, June 22nd, 2003 at 5:35 am and is filed under General Lee.