What do you do with a pot of dirt?
What do you do with a pot of dirt?
“Today’s music is junk.”“They don’t make ’em like they used to.”
As a debater or attorney, you learn to spot flaws in argument. The reason you don’t like today’s songs, TV, plays, movies etc. is that the writers aren’t writing for you or the words no longer speak to your heart! They’re writing to today’s audience. In the case of song, they write to the young. Those who desperately want to understand love and how to go about it. Those whose heart aches. Does this sound like something a romance writer might find useful?
Your remedy: find a way to fall in love (with something) and passionately and have that flow into your work in progress.
IMO, it’s author intrusion to force feed your own perception of what is art and what is junk. Not that you can’t have a voice. Who are you writing for? The wider the audience, the more you understand love through the eyes of your readers, the more you’ll sell, if that’s what you want.
Grandpa gave his granddaughter a pot of dirt. “How do you play with dirt?”“Water it every day.”
And soon the child came to know life.
Message In A Bottle, The Police, 1979
EXTRA CREDIT:
or if you prefer a more direct means of communication: PEensylvania 6-5000, Glen Miller's Band, 1940:
Or for my generation: Beachwood 45789: The Marvelettes 1962
“Today’s music is junk.”“They don’t make ’em like they used to.”
As a debater or attorney, you learn to spot flaws in argument. The reason you don’t like today’s songs, TV, plays, movies etc. is that the writers aren’t writing for you or the words no longer speak to your heart! They’re writing to today’s audience. In the case of song, they write to the young. Those who desperately want to understand love and how to go about it. Those whose heart aches. Does this sound like something a romance writer might find useful?
Your remedy: find a way to fall in love (with something) and passionately and have that flow into your work in progress.
IMO, it’s author intrusion to force feed your own perception of what is art and what is junk. Not that you can’t have a voice. Who are you writing for? The wider the audience, the more you understand love through the eyes of your readers, the more you’ll sell, if that’s what you want.
Grandpa gave his granddaughter a pot of dirt. “How do you play with dirt?”“Water it every day.”
And soon the child came to know life.
Message In A Bottle, The Police, 1979
EXTRA CREDIT:
or if you prefer a more direct means of communication: PEensylvania 6-5000, Glen Miller's Band, 1940:
Or for my generation: Beachwood 45789: The Marvelettes 1962
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