Unless you’re John Keats, or some other kind of savant. If you want to get good at something, you practice, learn and put effort into it. You work at it, tinker with it, and sometimes fuck it up entirely. Ultimately,
“The main idea is to keep writing. No matter what it is. Keep at it because even if your story gets worse, you will be getting better. You’ll sit and dream most of the time, but you must first conquer the big white glob with the typewriter imprints.”
-Ed Wood
Ed Wood
source:
http://www.freeinfosociety.com/article.php?id=234
Ed Wood in that last sentence is talking about using white out to clean up a mistake on a typewriter. In an era were the home computer had yet still been introduced. He would of probably killed to have even a janky 80’s computer. Never mind anything from today.
The IBM 5100
Released September 1975
Still better than a typewriter.
source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IBM_5100_-_MfK_Bern.jpg
Sure, the movies he made were not the best, but the man had heart, and determination to get things done no matter what. That is because he cared and had a passion for what he did, and that’s why we still know him and his movies. A man who was put under the most extremes of movie making and instead of crumbling, shat out a movie.
Thanks for everything Ed.
Perhaps if I continue to follow his advice, some of that tenacity will rub off on me too.
Anyway, here’s a revision of A Little Green tree
A Little Green tree
looking fine and dry.
snip, snip
there goes a Bit of branch.
snip snip, Bye!
there goes a Bit of another.
snip snip, crunch!
pruning fore-Goes until there is just
A skeleton.
Long green bleached bones
they come alive
and the Way
they hit the ground
it’s as if the weight
1 million pounds!
they turn to me
and say
THESE NAKED BONES
THESE TEN BARE CAPITOLS
DID YOU AT LEAST CAPITALIZE
ON WHAT I HAD TO SAY?
Whrandom Writings 
