Some random small thoughts provoked by nothing in particular and collected over the last few months. should write a post about my ideal writer cooperative community I bought poetry I'm not that into because I think my city ought to be able to support a poet laureate. We should be capable of that, as a place I'm not sure why the writing group has dwindled again when I think a lot of people are really into writing? And really want community? chapbooks are cool. More people should just print and staple their work and put it out there we need to remember there has always been stuff written to market, tropes, trends, dross, fandom, celebrity authors, cash-ins, adaptations, franchises. None of this is new. It might be different now but it's been around for centuries writing is probably the cheapest creative endeavour and maybe along with drawing the easiest to do on your own, seems to me but also doing writing with other people, for other people, alongside other people, is amazing experimenting with form should be more mainstream bring back proper omniscient pov. People are so scared it will be seen as head-hopping. It's an art! A beautiful thing! non-fiction is still telling us a story creating stories and sharing them with people is so innate might as well write something a guaranteed audience of one, me, will enjoy reading aloud is an undervalued skill to the point it's barely seen as a skill but it is no one is fact-checking your anecdotes. Don't pause the whole thing to figure out what day of the week it was or who was with you in which branch of whatever restaurant but more stories should be more fact-checked, it has been recently conclusively proven scandal sells there are too many types of writer's block to ever talk authoritatively about writer's block. Probably all eight billion of us have at least ten unique types each I blame "show don't tell." For what? For most things •