Look To The Skies

/ Anita Marie

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I’ve been having this on going conversation with some writer friends of mine.

They consider themselves ‘serious’ writers and I’ve been asked on more then

one occasion

when am I going to get serious about my writing too.

When am I going to stop with the ‘ blog thing‘

and when am I going to stop writing  the ” Twilight Zone story things ” 

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and that ” David Tennant / Strange Humor stuff I seem to sink to on some days

 when am  I going to give up writing about those things too-

some of those pieces are funny but not the sort of thing that ‘serious’ writers do.

If I want to write about what goes on in my life, I’ve been advised, I should just write about that and not tell silly stories to express the serious things in life  that I face.

Well.

I’ve thought about it.

Here’s what I think it will take for me to become a serious writer.

When I stop running into weird people who have weird ideas and weird views on the world  – or if those weird people who try to tell people like me who actually enjoy writing every single silly word every single day-

if all of those weird people got sucked up by a Hypercane

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 or mashed by an asteroid

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I guess

I wouldn’t  have

those  silly things

to distract me from becoming a serious writer.

There.

Good answer, if I don’t say so myself- which I just did.

Seriously.

7 thoughts on “Look To The Skies”

  1. And if you were “serious” you would be writing about all the same stuff as other “serious” writers which would be, yawn, the same old/same old and oh-so-boring. I like it much better when you are sillily working on that “blog stuff” and entertaining the hell out of me.

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  4. Hi Lori- well, if it’s all about being serious I’ll go back to working in a Funeral Home, which wouldn’t be bad but working David Tennant into everyday conversation could be bit of a challange

    Kitty- years ago the best advice I got about writing was from an author named Katherine Stone,

    http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/s/katherine-stone/

    I’ve followed it best I could and it’s worked. She said, write about what you like and don’t listen to anyone else says about it.This was years ago but I think, if I remember right writing romance novels wasn’t considered ‘serious’ back then and she may have been dealing with that. Anyways she said to Just write- and it’s worked, I write all of the time now and I happen to like what I do a lot. You know because I get to write about things that I enjoy.

    N.M I wish I could have put sound effects witht he pics, that would have really driven the point home.

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