Well, as often happens, I’m writing a post I didn’t plan on today. All right, if we’re splitting hairs, I don’t really plan any of them. However, I do dream of each one and fantasize about what I’m going to write before I write it, so that’s something, isn’t it?
I thought today I’d be penning some kind of sassy short⎯punchy and poignant, complete with a catchy, soul-shaking moral. Ideas came to me all week. Tricky ideas fooling me into thinking I’d remember them without jotting them down. Slippery ideas that slurped their tendrils back in as quickly as they’d appeared, stirring my creative juices.
Nope. No stories today.
Today, I am being inspired by crappy content. Yup. The crappier the better.
If you’re an aspiring writer, you may already know what I’m hinting at. You may know, without me having to explain, because you’ve been here. You are here. You live here.
Have you ever watched a movie or read a book and thought, how on God’s green earth is this out there for all to see? Who thought this was a good idea? and then, been shocked when you came up with the answer…two people. At least two people on the ground floor had to think this was a good idea⎯the creator and the buyer.
Good grief, Charlie Brown.
I know you’ve had these very thoughts. And not only have you marveled (and lamented) at the acceptance of these at best questionable works, but you have sworn that even your most embarrassing first drafts are better than them.
And I’m sure they are.
You can see where I’m going here. The very thing that deters our belief in the system can also be an open door. It may not be well-marked or easy to find, but there is clearly a way in.
No, the published crap might not seem fair, but we can certainly use it to fortify our faith.
Yup, agreed Hazy. 👍
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Been there, but I never managed to get an interesting post out of it. Hats off to Hazy.
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Hey, thanks!
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Been there – once, twice, three times a Hazy – LOL. I try to make it a learning experience. Sometimes, I’ll rip it apart in my head and think of ways I could put it back together to make the story work. Sometimes, I read with the sound of ping, ping, ping – don’t do that, don’t do that, don’t do that. I rant and rave but I rarely ever give up. Crap is crap but it can also be good fertilizer.
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Crap is very inspiring! 🙂
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Sometimes I wonder what on earth any buyer saw in a crappy film, weak plot, awful acting and then I just throw it out to the universe – it’s either a lot of money or an incredible amount of luck 😉
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I think it must be both, Dianne! I’m just not sure I’m that desperate to have my ‘crap’ out there, no matter the ‘reward’. I’d like a guarantee that mine smells like roses. ;0)
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Nice spin on an irritating reality!
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