One of my favorite writers, Charles Baxter, published a book of essay called "Burning Down the House." In the preface, he explains the title of the book and what burning down the house means to him. He writes that in order to exercise true creativity we must burn the house of imagination down to it's foundation and then build it back up. Now, that's obviously paraphrased and he put it a lot better than me, but I thought it was a very poetic and inventive evolution of the old cliche "think outside the box." This quote, while I don't remember the exact wording, has remained an inspiration for me...
I am currently in the process of applying to graduate schools with Creative Writing MFA programs in hopes of some day getting published and becoming a professor. This blog, is a way for me to exercise my thoughts and to always keep the figurative pen moving. Great writing takes practice and I felt what better way to practice than through my generation's biggest fad. So, I'm jumping on the blog bandwagon.
Here you can find my thoughts on writing, life, pop culture, comedy, music, movies, and whatever the hell else I feel like writing about. It's not gonna be serious like this first post, just whatever comes to mind and how I'm feeling at the moment. Most of the time I feel like ranting about things, making fun of people, and generally hating on everything, so you can expect a lot of that here. What fun is being cheery and praising everything?
Hopefully I can get a few laughs, teach some people something, and have some followers. More importantly though, I hope to fill my inbox with a lot of hate mail.
-GL
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