I was looking for something in my filing cabinet yesterday for something I had put in a special place because it was important and I didn’t want to lose it, but I couldn’t remember what the special place was. It wasn’t there, but I did find some old papers from when I attended my very first creative writing class, in 1999.
One of the papers was Kurt Vonnegut’s “8 basics of creative writing.” The first rule is:
Use the time of a perfect stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
That, friends, is why I post so rarely now. I don’t feel I have anything funny or riveting to tell you.
Something else I found was a poem I had written after seeing the Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks film You’ve Got Mail. I don’t write poems now, or novels, or screenplays: I paint.
But I thought you might like to read the poem:
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