If Hemingway were here today
If Hemingway were here today___wrote this last night in my journal while eating a triple choclate donut and drinking black coffee. Hmmmm!
Really that line sums it up for me: sport, passion and patience__all can be referenced to the details of Hemingway's life.
Think about it. If you don't have a sport to lose yourself in when your not writing, your dead as a writer period. No time now for gender. Find a sport. Could be walking. Anyone can do that, right?! What you get from sport will end up in some way in your writing I promise you. Could be your energy level rises so you can go farther in a day than normal. Or you can write about how good you are at the sport you do and that is where my next big idea comes in: Passion!
If your writing is not passionate than your not writing about what you really like and what makes you happy. Your writing for another reason. Money? Attention? Love?__I don't know but I bet you a $1 you know. Stop writing about shit that doesn't make YOU HAPPY! and start writing about what does as long as it is legal. Really! you say. But if I write about my fetsih for ice cream nobody is going to read me. Nobody is going to buy my book. No publisher is going to publish what makes me HAPPY!!! And that my friends brings me to my last point: patience.
Patience you must already know about if you think of yourself as a writer and are writing all the time everyday. If your not then get out of here. Really!!! You got to go into this writing thing with a commitment that is not forced but rather it has attracted you and you know you can write. Now that you got that you write about your fetish for ice creme like a bipolar off their meds__I know because I am one. As for the meds forget them I say. I use pure will power and surround myself with positive and loving people that I find at those little quaint cafes with the big sign that says Tim Hortons or Dunken Donuts__Yours could be McDonald's; they have great coffee by the way. The secret is to be around busy busy people and imagine your writing for them__your trying and going to write the best piece on your fetish for ice creme that will turn everyone of those people passing by you into a buyer of your book. Why?
Well there is this story I read of something Hemingway said about a Swiss hunter who wanted to bag a lion on safari in Africa with a bow and arrow!!!! Yikes!!! Nobody would take on the Swiss except this guy from I think Finland. There they are the Swiss, the guide and the Finlander. Finlander has spotted lion. Tells Swiss guy to ready and make sure he breaks bone. Swiss guy fires when lion is charging 100 meters in 3.3 seconds and hits lion. Lion bites off arrow without breaking pace and charges the guide and malls him in one swift pass. Finldnder takes down lion with one shot from gun. Swiss guy is all shook up. Finlander and Swiss guy walks over to dead guide__what a mess! Swiss guy wants to go back home.
See Hemingway was a hunter and told this story. Don't know if he made it up, but writers make use of their imagination and take creative licence even when they are just telling a story sitting around the table with friends drinking wine. The point is he gets your attention because of sport and passion and the patience to deliver it on a plate just for you so you take that story and make it your own, like I did with the Swiss.
If Hemingway were here today we'd all be reading his blogs everyday because he could take a fetish for ice creme and turn it into a story that you will tell your friends. So why are you writing about things that you don't like and are not HAPPY about? Because you got to find that sport, which develops the passion for you to patiently and having fun all along the way to write that book you were meant to write. The readers will find you. The publishers will find you. Because? You have written about ice creme like nobody has ever done before. You just became an Author.
Later __________Michael
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