Making the Clackity Noise
Okay, so, that’s what was in my keyboard just now. I didn’t know it was in there when I sat down to compliment Buffering on his 105 words that made me think about how I love little stories. This is why writing is fucked up and awesome and makes a 42-year-old man cry about cigarettes and Pete Rose and an ugly green car on a perfectly temperate Sunday afternoon.Your keyboard will have different things in it than mine does, of course. But, it’s impossible to know what’s in there until you’ve made the clackity noise for a few minutes. You think you know what’s in there. But you don’t. It’s not your brain that makes the clackity noise, it’s your fingers.
This is a take by Merlin Mann that pulls together 1) the importance of collecting stories (by Jonathan Harris) and 2) the fleeting/uncertain nature of creative writing (by Elizabeth Gilbert). I agree with his call for changing the culture of banality online. [Via Kung Fu Grippe; HT marco]
