Writing is believing

Great stories are written by fanatical believers; by passionate people who have deep faith in an idea. Faith is magical and it is underrated.

You are almost always guaranteed to find that badly written stories are spewed from the dry minds of non-believers. They don’t care about principles or exploring important ideas in their fiction. They just want to write a story. But their mistake - which they often make with an “artsy” pretentiousness - is thinking good stories are based simply on cute plot arcs and interesting characters. Good stories come from characters, environments and plots that represent some real aspect of our condition as humans. To get at this, you have got to have faith.

—In this immortal time and place I paid homage to George Michael.—

I find it enormously important to monitor the state of my musings on an almost daily basis to ensure that I am taking enough risks to stay honest. I need to rekindle my deepest, most esoteric ruminations in order to stimulate passionate stories. Those of us who’ve closed, bound and hidden away emotional wounds and intimate experiences should tear them open and allow the body to become a vessel for their torments. Just make sure you’re in control of your hands so they can write (or type).

Women and Men are more than equal

Women increasingly dominate men in most arenas. This fact gives guys like me an inferiority complex that I overcome in the shameful and immature manner of putting women down. I mean to joke about this topic but my sense of humor is often too dry and jokes come across as reality.

I want to make it entirely clear that I judge people based on who they are intellectually, what their principles are and the actions they take each day. In a past post I conjectured that there should be a male owned and operated advertising agency because the field is overrun with women. It is interesting to me that if we say that a field is overrun with men then there is nothing wrong with that statement but in saying that advertising is overrun by women I am classified as a misogynist almost immediately. I do not think women are in any way less able than men. In fact, I think women are a step up these days in many ways.

We’ve switched to 1&1

Welcome to 1&1 hosting everyone. I think it will serve us well. Let’s wait and see.

Male-owned and operated business

Here is a business idea I don’t mind sharing - a male owned and operated advertising agency. Minority owned businesses are ALL THE RAGE GUYS. So now I will add one more to the mix. Hispanic owned, woman owned, african-american owned - meet man owned.

I love women in more ways than you know. I think they’re smart, creative and generally nice to look at. But too much of a good thing is bad. The field is overrun with estrogen and its enough to turn you into a hermit. Incidentally, check out my post on hermitage for a great place to go if you need it.

We get enough estrogen from our significant others in the morning and at night. We don’t need the hysterics and the drama during the day. Give us a break ladies. All we’re trying to do is change the world. Can’t we do that in peace?

So yes, I will advocate the creation of a male-owned and operated advertising agency. It is a niche worth filling. And imagine the PR…

One Day Down.

Storyrules was down for basically all of yesterday. Oddly enough, I could still find my way to subpages. Well it’s okay that this happened now because no one reads this blog yet! And I wouldn’t have it any other way - not having readers and all. None of the other pages are built out, the formatting is still quirky and my posts are only so-so at this point.

When this blog is hoppin’ though, I will hope I don’t have that kind of down-time during the day.

Writing is for everyone. Professional assholes can go to Hell.

Is telling a story the privilege of a small group of talented writers? Or is it an innate right of humankind that has been stripped from the comman man and artificially setup as the domain of eccentric “thinkers”?

I have the feeling that writing has been hijacked by an ego-centric group who is trying as hard as they can to keep people from pursuing amateur writing - in the real sense of the word amateur meaning passion - in order to maintain their grip on the “profession”.

Writing is an expression of personal experiences, beliefs and desires. I don’t care if you have ten years of professional training or if you’re an illegal immigrant pizza delivery guy who writes his thoughts down on stained napkins - writing is at its best when it is authentic.

Screw you, the person who sticks her nose up to an inexperienced writer because he doesn’t know someone in your stupid field. Screw you for thinking you’re the gatekeeper of great stories and the only one who understands what it means to influence emotions.

Writing is subjective and you’re a waste of skin in the big picture if you don’t pay attention to anything that hasn’t already been recognized by Sundance or some other lame professional creative organization. Go back to your wannabe celebrity lifestyle that you can barely afford because you don’t get paid shit compared to the actors who depict your stories.

Keep pretending you’re all about the story and the characters, all the while compromising so people accept you. Have fun being underappreciated. I, on the other hand, won’t settle for just pre-production involvement.

So who’s the more ego-centric writer? You crave acceptance so badly that you’ve lost sight of what it is to tell an honest story. I just want to tell a great story. Everything else is an afterthought.

I have a feeling that I’m more ego-centric than you. But you’re a spoiled artifact with an addiction to crappy ideas that sell. What’s worse, you think I’m stupid for my “blind” belief in creativity. You’ve just fooled yourself into antiquity. You’ll be at WE soon enough. bitch.

Music is a powerful tool for Method Writing

Music really can have the same affect on us in real life as it seems to have on characters in the movies. Except rather than allowing us to empathize in one way or the other with specific characters and their circumstances in movies, music for life spurs intention in the right direction and can literally inspire action in dull moments.

Music can spur proactivity in a positive, disruptive way that almost nothing else can. Music is subjective enough in its ability to affect us and to be interpreted that it can provide that metaphorical kick in the ass that each of us often needs for that highly unique personal form of motivation.

Let music guide your mind to dream in ways you wouldn’t normally go. Dream with your eyes wide open and with an open mind to the possibilities. This will lead you to realize the great things you can do. And we can all do great things with just the right amount of dreaming and willingness to suffer for those dreams.

For writers, that simply means visualizing the story on a musical landscape and living it out through the pen.