disillusionment
POSTED AT 01:08 PM in on writing, thoughts

natanna

And as the song echoes in my head, You think that I don't even mean a single word I say, it's only words and words are all I have to take your heart away, it settles somewhere deep in my psych, asking me, but what do you really have to say?

In "A Sci-Fi Writer's Manifesto", Graham Storrs elaborates a very often ignored point: 

3. Do not write if you have nothing important to say.

I would like to be able to answer the question, “What is your book about?” with a statement of its idea rather than with a list of action scenes...

Setting myself the task of saying something important isn’t all that hard. There are many things I’ve learned in life, many things I want to say. I feel I have a contribution to make to understanding the human condition. It sounds pompous and arrogant, I know, but there it is. What kind of a person would I be if I had learned nothing? How much of a waste would my life have been if I could contribute nothing? And what is writing for if it is not to communicate ideas?

What will I be saying come November? What kind of ideas should I be writing about? What do I really have to say?

I really don't know.