Writing 101, Day One: Unlock the Mind

So, a free write for twenty minutes. hm

I’m unsure of what to type, i mean it was raining but that recently stopped and i can hear the song birds doing their thing.

I am inside in font of a computer and i hear the song birds and the wind and the outside chatter above the silent buzz of electronics i am surrounded by.

i am in a library working

i hear by boss typing and clicking away at his computer doing his thing. work. ya know.

i want to read more books and i have been trying. i have a strange attraction to sociopathic characters and for some reason i would like all of my characters to have sociopathic tendencies. maybe even psychopathic. it doesn’t mater. they could kill people i would probably have a strange understanding for the existence and let it go.

i like mundane things. mundane. lacking interest or excitement. dull.

yes. mundane. David Sedaris is a great author and writes about mundane things but he does it with a certain zest or style or skill that is more more captivating than his choice of topic should allow. but that’s what makes him great i guess. He might be my favorite writer.

Similar to him, but a different medium, is Stephen Shore. he is my favorite photographer. all he shoots is the mundane everyday unchanging existence of the world around him. it’s beautiful and dull. and painfully simple, yet insightful and and… and … i dont know.

 

i just love things that are seemingly superficially, or dull, or mundane.

One thought on “Writing 101, Day One: Unlock the Mind

  1. Have you thought about reading stuff from Psychologists? I read a lot concerning the topic and find it fascinating…but its not very mundane;)

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