If there is a magic in story writing, and I am convinced that there is, no one has ever been able to reduce it to a recipe that can be passed from one person to another. The formula seems to lie solely in the aching urge of the writer to convey something he feels important to the reader. If the writer has that urge, he may sometimes but by no means always find the way to do it.
If you define your personality as creative, it only means you understand what is perceived to be creative by the world at large, so you’re really just following a rote creative template. That’s the opposite of creativity. Everybody is wrong about everything, just about all the time.
The Village Voice was originally conceived as a living, breathing attempt to demolish the notion that one needs to be a professional to accomplish something in a field as purportedly technical as journalism,
If it were anyone else, this would be annoying, but this is Justin Bieber, so every improvised song fragment is intended as a present to whoever’s around him, like that SNL skit in which Picasso dashes off sketches on scraps of paper and hands them to anyone walking by.
But it seems to me that more and more we’ve come to expect less and less of each other and thats got to change. Your friends, your family, this school expect more of you than vocational success. Today is May 13th and today you graduate and the rules are about to change and one of them is this: decisions are made by those that show up.
