Empty Head

Sometimes, you need to let go and allow things to be exactly as they are. (And by sometimes, I mean all the fucking time, amiright??!?!!!!?%$##*&)

I'm right.

Writing is like dancing in that formal education is probably super-helpful for becoming a pro, but if you really push your peculiarities to the limit, you can still be pretty cool, as long as you're a nice autodidact who learns widely, listens to criticism, and preserves a deep, maddening love for your art without letting it become more important than other people.

If you're reading this now and you're unsure if you should start writing or continue writing, just know that you absolutely fucking goddamn should, because your words are important. And if somebody tells you they're not important, maybe they're right ... but you should still keep writing anyway. You're going to suck for a long time before you become remotely good, but it's really important to belittle yourself as little as possible, and to treat your art with the kind of love religious people probably feel in church.

If you do that, then by garsh (*Goofy chuckle as Evanescence roars in the background*), you just might make a swell helping of fiction.

So go do it.