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A Year in Writing
Sep. 3rd, 2008 12:03 pmIt was around about this time last year that I finished reading How to Become a Famous Writer Before You're Dead by Ariel Gore. It's beyond cliche to admit there is a book that changed your life, but in my case it is absolutely true. It was only after reading that book that I felt motivated to generate new poems for the first time in three years.
I'm not a big fan of writer's reference books. On the whole I find them too strict, authoritarian, and inflexible. It was the title of Gore's book that caught my eye. Bold and brazen, it made me want to find out of she could deliver on the promise of seeing my words in print and my name in lights.
( She did. )
You know what the strangest thing about all this is? I don't feel any different. I though I'd feel different once I was published - vindicated, more capable, justified. And, I do, but I still feel like myself. I don't feel special. I'm still the same insecurity ridden girl writing poetry in her notebook. Only difference is that now I have the tools to bring those scribbled pages into print.
I'm not a big fan of writer's reference books. On the whole I find them too strict, authoritarian, and inflexible. It was the title of Gore's book that caught my eye. Bold and brazen, it made me want to find out of she could deliver on the promise of seeing my words in print and my name in lights.
( She did. )
You know what the strangest thing about all this is? I don't feel any different. I though I'd feel different once I was published - vindicated, more capable, justified. And, I do, but I still feel like myself. I don't feel special. I'm still the same insecurity ridden girl writing poetry in her notebook. Only difference is that now I have the tools to bring those scribbled pages into print.
