Your Audience

 That damn blinking cursor is taunting me again, staring at me with its blink-a-d-blink little self. But that’s okay, I just laugh at its power over me. While I continue to type the gibberish that eventually turns into words, that turns into statements of truth. I talk to a few budding writers out there and a lot of them compliment me on my style and the things I write about. It picks me up believe me, especially for a guy with no wealth to speak of. For my writing at the most has bought me a decent dinner or two over the years.

But the main thing we writers always come to is the subject and the material. Which is funny to me because my main subject is usually myself. I mean, what easier or lazier thing can you write about other than yourself? But still my limited audience expects that or wants nothing else. So I dilly-dally about writing my little 300+ word salads every day, for the benefit of no one other than myself. And you know what? Maybe that’s the key to good writing, entertaining yourself.

You see, I’m retired and I’m disabled. I have the stamina of a 90-year-old which most 90-year-olds should find insulting. But I have a passion to write and let’s face it, that’s about all the passion I can handle. So to all you writers out there with a healthy fear of a blank page, good! Stay that way. Treat the page as your arch nemesis for it will never do you wrong. It will keep challenging you every day, to create words, then statements, and then stories. Stories you and the rest of your audience will enjoy.   

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