The Minuet of the Robots

I am finding that I lose motivation to do things sometimes. It is an amazing epiphany to be sure. Now that I am expected to write stories (and even a real novel!) for the MFA program, I find myself less and less compelled to actually sit down and come up with plots and story and all these things that are supposed to make up the grand scheme.

I think back from time to time about the years I spent right here! With my 300+ entries. It sounds almost ludicrous now, to think I wrote three hundred anything. Yet there they are, melodramatic and lacking in quality and oh-so-tortured– representative of the times in which they were written.

Perhaps that is true of all art: our ZEITGEIST is inexorably implanted into all we create, no matter how we attempt to escape it.

Is this what I need to accept in order to create again?

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January 17, 2007

possibly. i’m beginning to come to terms with the fact that as an english major in my third year i’m allowed to write about things. i tried to completely do away with ‘beautiful’ language in my writing, i thought it sounded sap-crappy. i think that’s why i haven’t written anything of worth on my own in a few years. anyway, i guess that in the right hands beautiful language doesn’t gag me.

January 17, 2007

ps man open diary has gone down the shitter