Did you, as a 5th grader, write persuasive essays? My kid is writing one on the evils of smoking. I've had a little trouble helping him with the structure of the thing (5th grade teachers send home NO instructions on assignments either.) He asked me if I ever wrote a persuasive essay before.
I haven't laughed so hard in a long time. "Dude," I said, "My whole blog is 5 years of persuasive essay."
Persuasive being the operative word, right? Sometimes I wonder just who the hell I'm trying to convince. Like yesterday, I barrelled in with some views on competition, commiting to bits and bytes what I think I know. And then some folks throw some stuff at me and I have to dig deeper, which basically led to a lot of questions, so the final outcome is that I don't know shit. Oh, I still think competition is a lower form of finding yourself, yeah. And I know we as a species can do better, at least some of the time. But hell, it added up to a lot of questions, so the final outcome is is that I don't know shit and I have to think more.
The most important thing I do, as a writer, is think. A lot.
What is the most important part of your creative process?
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