Letting go

I'm with the whole 'write-like-you-mean-it' scene, particularly as it's going to form the basis of my career. I've done the 'get-a-newspaper-collumn' thing, I've won a couple of competions - and lost a lot more :D - and I write my own little stories with the occasionally scene full of dirt. But honestly?

Bored.

Boredboredboredboredboredboredbored.

I wanna let go! Do something fun! Write something that makes people blush, or check behind them so that their boss ain't readin over their shoulder!

The best way to do this?

Watch american t.v.

Honestly, it's the way forward. It's so full of crap, it's genius. Frasier - classic. Crap, but classic. Sex and the City, an excuse for legal porn, and an attempt by the writers to see what happens if you throw 4 b*tches who hate each other in front of a camera for hours at a time. Sexcetera - actual porn. Southpark - WTF? Scrubs - cute, but it ends there.

And yet, it's so inspirational. I spend so much time watching the shock-horror she's-having-an-abortion of the soap world, or the oh-god-she-got-raped-and-now-her-love-has-disowned-her of the Hardy/Dickens scene, that it's hard not to get into a rut with my writing. I gotta liven stuff up! Yeah, so my character is seventeen and pregnant - but she had a great time getting pregnant, at least. And her boyfriend dotes on her - it could be a hell of a lot worse.

So attitude check, methinks. The deep, meaningful passages are great - fantastic, in fact. Earns you a lot of credit. But a laugh is better than a tear, as a wise woman once said.

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Oh christ, I hope it wasn't Madonna... :S