My {Writing}

I don’t apologize, hardly ever, for the words I place and where I place them. The sentences you observe here may be strange and eccentric or straight and simple, either way, I can’t pretend to be overwhelmed by your response. I can, however, be filled with regret in regards to a piece, especially if someone is hurt along the way, but pain and regret are great teachers I trust and embrace as I write and live from day to day. A lot of people believe you should write for an audience, write about certain topics, with a certain style in order to attract a large enough following to gain some traction and make some money. And then, some day, once you’ve sold some books and garnered a large online following, you can write about what you want to write about, and the critics will just bash the hell out of it and half of your following will leave because they don’t understand you anymore like they thought they actually did. And then those same people who told you to write for an audience will stick their tongue in your ear and whisper, “See, I told you not to write what you wanted to write. Now back to work.”

I write from the deepest portion of my soul and then reconfigure the structure to match my interpretation of what the characters and stories are entwined over, an analysis of their tension within, and place those words here for all to see. I believe in writing how I want to write, what I know I must write about, what I am deeply concerned over, and trusting an audience to appear or not appear. Regardless, no one wants a million friends who don’t know the first thing about the inner trappings of their soul.

So you may love it here, you may hate it. It’s of no consequence to me. I will continue writing for the necessity of writing, because I must interpret what’s occurring within my own self regardless of whether or not anyone reads. And, to be clear, I am not an author. I don’t get paid to express my tension or to garner an audience. This is not my career. I actually want to get paid to improve smiles. It is simply my outlet to publish thoughts and stories and happenings. Because no man should be defined by how he makes money or by what he does to express himself. No single attribute can fully define a man, it is the entirety of his being which must be taken into account.

I read many books over the course of any given year. But I defiantly pursue and seek out the works of just three authors: Chuck Palahniuk, Ernest Hemingway and Kurt Vonnegut.