now that I have nothing to do...

maybe i'll post all the time!!!

i've been thinking more and more about the ability to write and have been toying with the idea of becoming a writer. not of novels. i'm not creative enough to write a full fledged book. more like magazine stuff. i think that's why i started the blog in the first place. and to test my typing skills. which are mediocre. my spelling is up to par though.

anyways, i just finished potrait of an artist, as an old man by joseph heller, who is wildly famous for the mandatory high school reading of catch-22. i loved catch-22 when i was forced to read it as a high school junior, and when bored at my local borders i stumbled upon a shelf of his books. confused about which one i should impulse buy, i selected the most unlike the others, his last novel. it turned out to be a poorly veiled autobiography of his attempts to write his last great novel. which wasn't even published until after his death. it was editted together from extensive notes he had compiled.

reading about how a writer goes about figuring out what to write about and how to write it, threw me into a long reverie about writers i appreciate and my own love of writing and reading. most of what i've been reading lately has been in the non-fiction vien. books of short anecdotal stories. authors who primarily write for magazines and have been given the opportunity to write books based off of an idea or article of theirs.

i have always had a urge to work as an editor for a magazine. my editting skills have always been better than my writing skills. i'm brilliant when given an idea or work of others and am given the chance to improve it. but left to my own devices, i'm lost. i have nothing good to say, and nothing to spur that creativity.

upon further reflection, i think that's why working as a magazine writer would be more appropriate for my skills. you are given the option to come up with your own story ideas, but are usually given an article idea to start with and you get to go from there. i'm ok with that. and the pieces are shorter, keeping me from rambling on as i'm prone to do.

and i wouldn't want to write for a newspaper unless i could write for the arts section or as a critic of anything. as i said i'm much better when given work of others to start from. writing about the day's events, ie car crashes, fires, or political hullababoo, isn't interesting to me.

so if you are reading this, and need an editorial assistant or someone to fill-in for a writer, i'd be happy to assist.