I’m not the same as you; I don’t watch soaps on TV
I’m not in agreement with you, when you use chemicals on spiders and bees
I am a different person, everyone is, and that’s true
So how can you judge me, just because I’m not like you?
Would you like it if I said, you’re better off dead, because you have blond hair?
Would you like it if I said, you’re bony and unnatural, no you wouldn’t that wouldn’t be fair
Would you ignore my harmful chants if I said that you looked gay?
Would you ever feel the same again, after the things I’d say?
So how can you judge me, for the way I am?
How can you past judgement to a stranger on the sand?
I don’t know you, nor you me
So why do you feel the need to always correct me for being me?
I am large and I wear glasses, I have a burden to bear
Why do you need to make life more difficult, by your comments and your stare?
Set aside your viper tongue and live at peace with all
Who are you to judge other people, on what they look like have some gall
It doesn’t make you look big around your friends you know
Because behind your back they say things about you, that you wouldn’t rather know
Just keep your poisoned tongue silent, look and love the world
Don’t judge the strangers on the street, or fate on you will whirl
You won’t always be perfect my dear, slim or unblemished – one day you’ll see what you’ve done
Punished by fate that your victims wished
A writer’s thoughts
I have read somewhere in the past, that you are what you read and I believe that. The more I read the more defined my tastes have become, my skills, my genre leanings and this influences my writing and art.
With each good book I learn how I want to write and what I want to write about.
With each bad book I read, I learn how I do not want to write and what I dislike.
I do not believe that as a writer you must write things outside of your comfort zone, I believe you should be comfortable with what you are writing – although on an emotional matter, that’s quite different. You must write outside of your emotional comfort zone if you wish to write fear, pain and heartbreak effectively, unfortunately that means opening up your old wounds.
A lot of the time, I like to write about horror, trauma etc. and each time I do, I open up real and old wounds, this is why I often become quiet as a writer and have prolonged periods of not writing, whilst I emotionally recuperate.
I was once told that writers and artists generally go mad after a time and I believe it, we send ourselves mad for our art and stories because we are constantly reliving the horrors of our past for your entertainment and as a collective, we seldom are known or recognized for it.
I am not moaning about my lack of recognition as a writer and artist, because personally I think that’s my own fault. I think I am generally a lazy person and have not bothered to find myself a publisher or to advertise my work very much over the years at all. On the one occasion I did contact a publisher to see whether or not they liked an idea of mine, I was lucky enough to get a letter back within three weeks, but this terrified me, because they loved what I sent them and praised me highly for it; I never contacted them again, I was worried about becoming famous and at the time I was young and didn’t know about pseudonyms.
These days I am more prepared for whatever life throws at me because I will be totally blatant about what I can and cannot do and what I will and will not allow.
Other than twitter, my blog and magazines are there any other steps I should take to get myself known?
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