Creative writing

Now when I write I write as the one Plato wants banished from the Republic.

Then the writing doesn't matter as much, knows writing really doesn't matter, isn't all that important and so has a chance of becoming real writing, the kind of writing that only I could have written.

First of all, real writing, the kind of writing that is good for me, is writing I've written that I like to read after it's been written.

Secondly, I try make sure that everything I write is writing only I could have written; I don't worry whether it's good or bad writing, I worry that if my writing is like another person's it's not writing and therefore isn't real.

A real writer can't write like writing is a product since writing's not made of the same stuff a product is made out of, wood or plastic or metal, or in the same way, nor can writing be taught like a man may be taught to make a table or a chair or a pencil.

A real writer believes a bad book is at least as bad or worse than a bad person, and therefore can only write the book that brings out the best in him. If the writing doesn't bring out the best in him, he banishes himself from himself, not needing anyone other than himself to tell him his writing is either good or bad.

While writing, the writer hears the words of the intelligent woman reader who says, "it's perfectly all right to read junk these days because the other stuff that's supposed to be better isn't any better and is often much worse since it's supposed to be so much better."

Writing is no more a profession than philosophy is a profession and though money can be made in writing.

When I really write, I write like I'm hyper-alive watching the dust settle around me, dust of the past, present, and future. Then I write like I know I'm doomed to dust, but with the satisfaction of knowing at least it will be my own dust.