the best thing about being a writer -- part LXXXVI
$Zero
it's looking at yourself in the mirror.
your true self.
unguarded.
with no pretensions whatsoever.
...
yes, it's taking a good hard stare.
for those few moments...
it's making a totally honest assessment of who and what you see.
because, after all of these years, there you are.
...
it's taking a profoundly sincere gaze at the serious side of yourself.
(while intermittently posing for magazine covers).
writer of the year!
voice of a generation!
etc..
and then the lights go out as the electric company disconnects
service.
-$Zero...
the best thing about being a writer -- part LXXXV
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.writing/msg/33d96131c7f6c985
Mark
> the best thing about being a writer -- part LXXXVI
>
> it's looking at yourself in the mirror.
> your true self.
> unguarded.
> with no pretensions whatsoever.
> for those few moments...
> it's making a totally honest assessment of who and what you see.
> because, after all of these years, there you are.
I agree, but with one serious exception.
Whatever you do, if you've been eating mushrooms,
you know the kind that come up in the cow pasture
after a spring rain...
Stay the Hell away from mirrors!
You've been warned.
*****