More Unsolicited and Untested Advice
(for all my fellow writers)
from 
JoeUser Forums
JoeUser Forums
If you write and
picture your audience
you’re done for
if you write and already
know the ending
stop there
if you write and
worry about how it’ll
all be interpreted
then pack it up, Jim
there’s a reason why
it’s called writing
in the present tense
the act is freeing
empowering
and a damned good time killer
sometimes its
capturing a moment
or even a mood
or trying to put into words
the divine
the words may be
incapable
you may fall woefully
short
and you may never
exactly nail it all on the
head
but that’d be like
reading every book
you every wanted,
once that was
accomplished,
then what?
As the lead
scratches over the
paper
barely stopping
long enough
to review
keep writing
it will be your
record
your reminder
your legacy
and remember
it is yours
no one else will
care about it or for it
like you do
even
especially
after you die
your writing is all yours
die and it goes with you
Unless
you’re a real talent
then they’ll keep
cranking it out
in special editions
long after you’re cold.
Not me.
I want to be here
to defend
the errant love letter
the indecipherable scrawl
the curve upward
and inward
and not leave it to
others to understand.
Besides,
how could they?
These weren’t written
for them.
picture your audience
you’re done for
if you write and already
know the ending
stop there
if you write and
worry about how it’ll
all be interpreted
then pack it up, Jim
there’s a reason why
it’s called writing
in the present tense
the act is freeing
empowering
and a damned good time killer
sometimes its
capturing a moment
or even a mood
or trying to put into words
the divine
the words may be
incapable
you may fall woefully
short
and you may never
exactly nail it all on the
head
but that’d be like
reading every book
you every wanted,
once that was
accomplished,
then what?
As the lead
scratches over the
paper
barely stopping
long enough
to review
keep writing
it will be your
record
your reminder
your legacy
and remember
it is yours
no one else will
care about it or for it
like you do
even
especially
after you die
your writing is all yours
die and it goes with you
Unless
you’re a real talent
then they’ll keep
cranking it out
in special editions
long after you’re cold.
Not me.
I want to be here
to defend
the errant love letter
the indecipherable scrawl
the curve upward
and inward
and not leave it to
others to understand.
Besides,
how could they?
These weren’t written
for them.
