"As a writer, I need an enormous amount of time alone. Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials. It's a matter of doing everything you can to avoid writing, until it is about four in the morning and you reach the point where you have to write. Having anybody watching that or attempting to share it with me would be grisly." - Paul Rudnick
I have friends who, in their spare time, love to bake, create things, and decorate their walls with lots of art. As I type this, I look around my apartment and I have bare walls and nothing is baking (I have never turned the oven on in this place since I moved in 2007).
And if I have any spare time at all, I prefer to spend it writing or watching a documentary. In the meanwhile, my apartment stays cluttered.
It's a matter of priorities I guess. If I have any sort of creative energy at all, I prefer to write it down. It's a messy process though.
"I type in one place, but I write all over the house." - Toni Morrison
I have always loved to write. My first memory of writing stories was in the fourth grade when I wrote about things such as, "Stanley, My Pet Basketball" and "As The Curtain Rises" (about acting on stage). My teacher told me she loved my stories.
I had quite the imagination then, as most children do. I kind of wonder where it went, since I tend to write more autobiographically these days. I also prefer to read non-fiction over fantasy as well. I have never read or watched anything remotely having to do with Harry Potter and the like.
If I am going to sit still and read a book, I want to learn something. I prefer true stories about lessons learned because that is what inspires me. Most of the books in my apartment are only half-read though, with dusty book marks in them. I can pretty much put any book down, which is sad, really, since that is considered illegal by most writer's standards. Writers are supposed to be reading all the time. I, however, prefer to people watch. I blame it on my self diagnosed A.D.D.
I would like to be more well rounded and have a burning desire to make Christmas cookies, knit quilts and paint abstract art. But unless someone reminds me to do these things over and over again, being crafty does not enter my mind most days.
It's just been in the past couple of years I have felt compelled to start sharing my true stories. For awhile, my love for acting, with a side of dance, took the forefront in my life. But now, it's time to write.
I just hope I don't end up being some crazy cat lady buried behind a keyboard, hair unkept, wearing a bathrobe all day, a la Carrie Fisher in Season 2 of the television show, 30 Rock:
Save me Carrie Fisher, you're my only hope.
I have friends who, in their spare time, love to bake, create things, and decorate their walls with lots of art. As I type this, I look around my apartment and I have bare walls and nothing is baking (I have never turned the oven on in this place since I moved in 2007).
And if I have any spare time at all, I prefer to spend it writing or watching a documentary. In the meanwhile, my apartment stays cluttered.
It's a matter of priorities I guess. If I have any sort of creative energy at all, I prefer to write it down. It's a messy process though.
"I type in one place, but I write all over the house." - Toni Morrison
I have always loved to write. My first memory of writing stories was in the fourth grade when I wrote about things such as, "Stanley, My Pet Basketball" and "As The Curtain Rises" (about acting on stage). My teacher told me she loved my stories.
I had quite the imagination then, as most children do. I kind of wonder where it went, since I tend to write more autobiographically these days. I also prefer to read non-fiction over fantasy as well. I have never read or watched anything remotely having to do with Harry Potter and the like.
If I am going to sit still and read a book, I want to learn something. I prefer true stories about lessons learned because that is what inspires me. Most of the books in my apartment are only half-read though, with dusty book marks in them. I can pretty much put any book down, which is sad, really, since that is considered illegal by most writer's standards. Writers are supposed to be reading all the time. I, however, prefer to people watch. I blame it on my self diagnosed A.D.D.
I would like to be more well rounded and have a burning desire to make Christmas cookies, knit quilts and paint abstract art. But unless someone reminds me to do these things over and over again, being crafty does not enter my mind most days.
It's just been in the past couple of years I have felt compelled to start sharing my true stories. For awhile, my love for acting, with a side of dance, took the forefront in my life. But now, it's time to write.
I just hope I don't end up being some crazy cat lady buried behind a keyboard, hair unkept, wearing a bathrobe all day, a la Carrie Fisher in Season 2 of the television show, 30 Rock:
Save me Carrie Fisher, you're my only hope.
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