Writer’s Blog

        

               It’s a new year with new thoughts and new challenges. It is a time to start with a clean slate. So, in this light I want to blog (“blog” what a fun verb to say out loud, try it “blog” J) about some very basic questions.  Let’s start this blog with the question, can I a write?  Well, I know I can write, but can I write well enough that someone else would pay to read it? Is the measure of a good writer someone who gets paid to write poems, or articles or books? Is that the measure of a good painter? Sculptor? Musician? Do I have something to say? If I have something to say, once I say it, will I be out of things to say or will I have something else to say?  Can I stop writing these rhetorical questions? Are ideas like reloadable ammunition or is it a one shot deal? Sometimes my gibberish makes sense, and sometimes what I think makes sense is all gibberish. Sometimes I write, not knowing where it will end up (like now). What will happen in the future with my writing is uncertain, but I do know that right now I do like to write and that is good enough.

               I love the unexpected, the new and the different. I think one of my goals this year will be to try to incorporate the “new” the “different” and the “unexpected” more in my writing. I am actually partially inspired by the tv show “Community”. Don’t judge it based upon the fact that it is on a major network, NBC (probably not for long). I am impressed by the writing which is definitely new and unexpected.  I started to watch Community after my brother said how great it was. Please don’t tell him that he had an influence on me, I will never hear the end of it. Anyway he does have a knack for finding off beat things that only a few, but die hard, viewers like. Anyway, I saw one episode and knew I had to go back to the beginning and see them all.  Unfortunately, I was hooked. 

               For those of you who don’t know, as NBC does not advertise Community, (I have only seen one commercial and that was very recently) it is about a group of very, very, eclectic people who form a study group, and friendship, at a community college named Greendale. Actually, it is in some ways like STAC despite the extremely diverse personalities, they find a way to be friends and support each other despite their differences. The writing and actors are really unique. It is definitely an acquired taste, but once you get it, you really like it. Unexpectedly, I find myself laughing at something hours or even days later. After several episodes, you actually get used to start to expect the unexpected and get used to the weird and very quirky characters.  My favorite character is Abed, who at first seems insane, but, *SPOILER ALERT *is actually the only sane one of this group. Anyway, after a long absence, it was brought back to NBC because ( I am told) its fans demanded it. The really funny part is that it was supposed to be back on October 19^th but NBC kept moving the date.  The cast and writers of Community finding this amusing made their own commercial saying that, any day Community comes back on the air will be October 19^th, so Thursday is not February 7^th but October 19^th.  I have to admit that I have been waiting to see the misadventures of the “Greendale 7” and what these talented writers have in store for these actors, and I wonder, can I do that?