Writing

Maybe one day I will do really something as an artist/writer...

One day....

15 things I don’t want to write (about):

• 1. specific situations & people that make me angry
• 2. the meanest parts of me
• 3. inanimate objects
• 4. only feelings
• 5. personal sentimental experiences
• 6. sports
• 7. subjects I have no experience with or relation to
• 8. science lab experiments
• 9. a story with no females
• 10. something written only to create warm fuzzy feelings
• 11. current experiences (still figuring them out)
• 12. genre writing (science fiction, romance, fantasy, horror, historical, etc etc)
• 13. only animals
• 14. cutting edge experimental stuff that’s trying too hard
• 15. technology

15 things I do want to write (about):

• 1. children (like mine)
• 2. being a parent
• 3. not being a parent
• 4. specific situations & people that make me angry as a launching point not end point
• 5. familiar things that are rich with meaning
• 6. friendships among women
• 7. family strife
• 8. mixed families
• 9. second-generation American-ness
• 10. communication failures & what’s unsaid
• 11. lost dreams, new dreams
• 12. finding light in dark times
• 13. changing expectations
• 14. coming to terms
• 15. disillusionment