May. 1st, 2006

WTF

May. 1st, 2006 12:49 am
I really should be in bed, but instead I'm up feeling sorry for myself.

Today was not a good day for my writing morale. I spent the afternoon flipping through Chicago Magazine, because I've been itching to move up the publication food chain, and also get my stuff out to a wider audience. I thought Chicago would be a good choice, considering all the restaurant write-ups I've been doing lately, but then I realized that the places they cover are places that feed an economic bracket completely out of my league. Their readers way more affluent than I will probably ever be, and lead a lifestyle that I can't really relate to. So now I'm second-guessing whether I should be brainstorming ideas for this mag, even though I know getting some words within their pages would give me some street cred.

Later, M and I ended up at the bookstore. I browsed around quite a bit, and was a little bit frustrated to see so many novels and memoirs focusing on people of the upper crust, or people leading charmed lives. Maybe I'm alone on this one, but is it REALLY necessary for modern literature to revolve around a percentage of the population that's so fucking marginal? How about some stories about regular people, the ones I'm a lot more inclined to depict in my stories? Or are they too unimportant?

I want to read about people I recognize. People that I might pass on the street and say hello to. I don't give a damn about fucked up families in expensive condos in San Francisco, or overworked Manhattan women struggling to meet the man of their dreams. But this is the kind of stuff I'm seeing in print, and it makes me wonder why in the hell I think anyone is gonna give a damn about the things I want to write about.

Enough righteous indignation, I need to get some sleep.

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