Late-night Ramblings
Posted: 9/9/2009
Written By: Matt
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I need a writer.
I've learned in the past years that my primary symptom of the type of over-tiredness that I've let myself slip into again is a foggy melancholy that seeps through my thinking, a heaviness without a source, a sadness without a cause.
Not surprisingly, these are the moments that I write what I consider to be my better work, when I stop caring about crafting any great prose but just start taking the swirling bits of whatever it is that makes me me at this moment and scribble them out in ink on paper. Is it compelling for most readers? Likely not, but I have given up writing for them.
I find that there are too few writers in the world. There are many, certainly, and mostly very talented, but with all the words written, I can't seem to find those few lines from the writer who has been in this very spot and wrote it out before me. I don't need them to pull me up. I just want to know they've seen this road and that I am not nearly so lost as I may think I am.
This morning I'm scanning my Pandora stations for that one lyricist who can, from shared experience, offer me that hope. Often, that would be Over The Rhine, but today I'm aiming for the David Crowder Band.
We'll see.
Don't be intimidated by the sheer number of words already in print. Let the other writers write for their own audiences. Just remember that the world is full of people who are looking at their yesterdays and tomorrows through the same lens you are. You'd be letting them down if you didn't come along side them with your words and whisper a few sweet nothings in their ears, just to let them know they aren't alone.
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