Stories need a roof over their heads too
I’ve been to the movies with my lady (fairly) recently to see this film called La La Land. You may have heard about it. It’s been making quite the headlines for the past couple months. For good reason too, I think. It had enough good reasons to prompt me writing a new entry for Blank Page Down. But more on that after the jump (NO SPOILERS, guaranteed).
Writing has its fair share of difficulties, like any other occupation out there. It’s an exercise of will first, patience second. Imagination is the necessary foundation of your work, yet imagination on its own won’t carry you through if you lack the discipline to hammer your text into shape. One of the trickiest ingredients of discipline, at least related to writing, is learning to let go.
Backtracking to the reason I started writing, I inadvertently dig up a painful piece of memory.
It was three years ago, my dad had been ill for a while, his condition seemingly not changing by much. He was soldiering stoically on. We all sort of believed things would work out all right.