Its one thing to write something well. Its a far harder thing to write something true. To write something well just takes time. And rhythm helps. But mainly time. You just keep pecking at it, reading it over and changing it and reading it and changing it and eventually, if you have any sense of aesthetics at all, you have something that's been written well. But to write something true is an entirely different beast. You can't just keep plugging and expect to come up with something true. You could plug for your whole life and write nothing but lies. Nope. Truth doesn't come from quantity. Its way too elusive for that. And that's the way it should be. So yeah, like I'm saying, its tough You'd think on a blog, where you're writing about yourself and your life, it'd be pretty easy to come up with something true.

But its not. Because most of your life isn't really all that real.
Just because it happened doesn't mean its true.
When I go back and read all the stuff I've written on this blog, I can pick out maybe 2 or 3 that maybe, maybe, just might be true. I wrote them so its tough to know. I'm too close.
But if its 2 or 3, I'm ok with that. I mean, what's it been, like a year. And I got 2 or 3 shots that might have hit a mark. That's ok. That's better odds then most.
- posted by Sigurd2/16/2005 09:49:00 AM