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 ” 

oh

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

 or mashed by an asteroid

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.