Rick Bowes--Da Man

This is a great essay about writing/the writer's life. It's sad and funny at the same time. Inasmuch as he's saying we've partially become a herd of cows mooing niceties at each other, yes, that's pretty much it. Homogenized slipstream cross genre traditional churning out stories sitting at a formica booth with weak coffee and stale toast at 2 in the morning at a Denny's. You think you experienced something, but you're still in a Denny's and all that happened the night before is somebody blathered on about their career and wasn't that story about talking dogs cute.The point is, a writer always needs as much as possible to ignore the bullshit that surrounds writing and seek that genuine emotion, that genuine moment that isn't a received idea or a cliche. To live in the moment and to be open to it.