01-25-2013, 10:47 PM
I don't have any good advice. But writing is important to me, so I'll write anyway.
What do you think is important in the process of becoming a writer?
An education? What kind of degree? A degree at all? Any books?
Read whatever you want, or need. If you're smart and sensitive, and you don't die too soon, then everything is going to educate you.
What kind of experience do you feel is needed to write?
Whatever you're willing to write about.
What kind of writing jobs have you had?
None. I was a wrestler. I was putting books on the shelf in bookstores. But mostly things that aren't practical for earning a living.
How did you get your first job?
I've never had a job with writing. The first thing I did when I was 17 was start wrestling, because I was good at beating the shit out of people, and letting them beat the shit out of me. But when I started to have problems with perception, I became too reckless, and simply started hurting people too bad. So I went on to something else.
How did you start out writing?
We had adventures in the woods, and throughout the countryside. We would all draw maps; and we heard noises and saw strange things. I would concentrate on those things, and draw pictures of them, and as I got older, I started to write about them. So we could convince ourselves that we saw them, and heard them. And they became real to us. That's the way myths and legends come to life. And I wrote long journals and books about these worlds we created.
Can you remember the poem, story and/or film that helped you fall in love with writing?
Like with all love, it started through feelings of desperation. Though horror and fantasy movies would set the tone for how we reacted to our atmosphere and environment. Like when you come out of a zombie movie around midnight, and walk over to the mall parking lot, or the WalMart parking lot: and it's not hard to imagine zombies staggering under those streetlights.
If you have been published, what did it feel like to be published for the first time?
I published one book. Then I was hated by my family for it. Then I self-published some things. And then have only had essays published online by some people I don't know: mostly religious stuff, or comedy stuff.
How do you feel an aspiring writer should go about becoming a writer?
Write whenever you what, whatever you want. If people hate it, it's just another experience, and another thing that will force you to learn more. Just keep learning and failing and succeeding and writing. The only sure way to fail completely is to quit. Whether you fail or succeed in the end, there's far worse things you could be doing with your life. Just look around.
What do you think is important in the process of becoming a writer?
An education? What kind of degree? A degree at all? Any books?
Read whatever you want, or need. If you're smart and sensitive, and you don't die too soon, then everything is going to educate you.
What kind of experience do you feel is needed to write?
Whatever you're willing to write about.
What kind of writing jobs have you had?
None. I was a wrestler. I was putting books on the shelf in bookstores. But mostly things that aren't practical for earning a living.
How did you get your first job?
I've never had a job with writing. The first thing I did when I was 17 was start wrestling, because I was good at beating the shit out of people, and letting them beat the shit out of me. But when I started to have problems with perception, I became too reckless, and simply started hurting people too bad. So I went on to something else.
How did you start out writing?
We had adventures in the woods, and throughout the countryside. We would all draw maps; and we heard noises and saw strange things. I would concentrate on those things, and draw pictures of them, and as I got older, I started to write about them. So we could convince ourselves that we saw them, and heard them. And they became real to us. That's the way myths and legends come to life. And I wrote long journals and books about these worlds we created.
Can you remember the poem, story and/or film that helped you fall in love with writing?
Like with all love, it started through feelings of desperation. Though horror and fantasy movies would set the tone for how we reacted to our atmosphere and environment. Like when you come out of a zombie movie around midnight, and walk over to the mall parking lot, or the WalMart parking lot: and it's not hard to imagine zombies staggering under those streetlights.
If you have been published, what did it feel like to be published for the first time?
I published one book. Then I was hated by my family for it. Then I self-published some things. And then have only had essays published online by some people I don't know: mostly religious stuff, or comedy stuff.
How do you feel an aspiring writer should go about becoming a writer?
Write whenever you what, whatever you want. If people hate it, it's just another experience, and another thing that will force you to learn more. Just keep learning and failing and succeeding and writing. The only sure way to fail completely is to quit. Whether you fail or succeed in the end, there's far worse things you could be doing with your life. Just look around.