LOL I've been breaking so much shit with this website lately. That's what I get for half-assing tech tues smh.
The big read for me lately has been Libra by Don DeLillo for DNR's Book club - shit fucking rocks. I think I like I better than White Noise. I like how grounded and terse the prose is, you need the clear-eyed voice for a story so scattered. It's honestly brilliant, just in concept. It takes the biographical details of Lee Harvey Oswald and the JFK assassination to create a really human story about coming to terms with our indivudual relationships to history. I'm getting through the second part of it now and I really can't wait to see where it ends up.
I don't think a lot about writing, honestly? It's more something I think through than I think about. I don't think my writing is very complex, because I write from the heart, you know? I do notice when I feel myself trying when I write - I can make my sentances chunkier w/r/t vocab and be more sensitive to how the syntax flows. Other than that, it's not very systematic. I doubt many writers are, though. I probably always starts with a kind of flow, and then you work with what comes from it.
I guess for me this gets weird when trying to write for other contexts? There's a kind of struggle for direction, something to get the ball rolling. I think this is why I haven't written a song in so long. Not being able to come up with any musical ideas is one thing, but it's so fucking annoying when you have a good riff but can't decide what to sing with it. Songs lyrics are harder, because have to actually say the shit you're thinking out loud, and you're also singing the same thing over and over again - certianly pestering anyone in earshot. If freewriting was freespeaking, I think it would be harder. I don't think the results of free speaking would be very good if I were to try, but maybe I will anyway and report back.
I feel the pull to get into poetry to inform my apprach to songwriting, but I feel like it's actually not as simmilar as you'd think. I feel like some artists do such weird shit with the words in their songs and what makes a lyric work or sound stupid really comes down to something more basic than any grammtical rules. I want to find examples to talk about of lyrics I find interesting, like, either in why they work or why they don't work. Especially ones that work when they feel like they shouldn't.
ok that's sounds so fun but it's late and i'm tired and i wanna go to bed.
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- v0id
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