Looking through old things

[gwalla]

Last night I looked through a few old composition books that were mouldering in the wall-mounted basket by my bed. I used to write down ideas in those things all the time as a kid.

Damn, I was filled with lame ideas when I was little.

Not all of them were bad, of course. But I was dismayed to find that right up through high school a lot of the things I'd written down were unsalvageable crap. Especially attempts at song lyrics...gah! Horrible.

Comments

[upc747.livejournal.com]

I have a writing book that is supposed to help with creative writing and it says something about ideas...more along the lines of 'everyone has ideas, but only the skillful writers can make stories out of them.'

[maggiemarmalade.livejournal.com]

Flowers grow from garbage, Gwalla.

[gwalla.livejournal.com]

Not if it's toxic.