Friday, April 11, 2008

Readership

Having to face your audience is not something a writer wants to do very often. They want immediate answers to all their questions. Overtones and subtlety go right out the window and it's impossible for meanings to be found between the lines with some issues. I write like I speak, I speak like I think.


Sometimes I don't like what I write, or maybe it will upset someone to hear it, but it's true none the less and I wouldn't be honest to myself if I wrote anything else. It does make me think about Truth though. I am always thinking about the how's, why's, and what's of Truth. Such as, when certain truths are spoken aloud they are no longer true. We could totally botch the delivery, or even inflection is important... every detail matters and could go wrong so easily it's amazing we can even communicate sometimes at all.


Maybe I should explain what this all is, what these words are to me. They are my inner thoughts, they are not a well thought out, planned and organized strike team sent out to accomplish some secret mission. It will be silly, funny, pointless, absurd, thoughtful and sad. It is entirely possible for someone to feel happy, sad, hopeful, and depressed all at the same time. But stacking all of these up, weighing them, and deciding which weighs the most, declaring the winner and then write from that perspective is not who I am or what I do. These words are for me and you, dear reader, to know and understand me better.


On a lighter note, "shaggle" is a really funny word. By far one of the best I've ever made up. Use it with some friends sometimes, I'll let you decide the context!