What launches me

The secret sauce

There’s a book on my shelf that I’m deliberately not reading. It’s Demon Copperhead. I know that if I read that book, it’s going to shoot a lightning bolt through me and I’ll have to start writing.

You may wonder why, since I’m complaining about not writing so much, I wouldn’t want that catalyst.

It’s a question of am I ready?

I’m watching “The Good Place.” Netflix show. And you know, it makes me want to write part two of that TV series I started with “Unreliable Narrator.” I have the synopsis all finished, and just need to write the thing. And when I watch a show as good as “The Good Place” I get that feeling inside that I could, I SHOULD, be writing something that good too.

Same thing happened when I started listening to Will Kimbrough songs. I thought I was through writing songs for a while, and two new ones popped out before I could stop them.

So why not read Demon Copperhead?

Maybe it’s the delusion that I can somehow be ready for the gitchy feeling, the I Must Write feeling. I’m not.

At some level I really don’t want to write.

What’s that about?