Showing posts with label manifesto. Show all posts
Showing posts with label manifesto. Show all posts

Monday, May 14, 2007

NAKED WRITING: A Manifesto

I admire writers who write with their balls out. Your balls, they are not those things down your pants. They are the things that allow you to write from within, and not filter it through some theoretical idea of popular opinion. Your balls allow you to write human stories and not approved material. Your balls are not concerned with wrong- or right-headedness. Your balls are you.

I admire writers who write with their cock on the block. Your cock, it is not that thing down your pants. It is your public reputation, and the idea of yourself that you want to project. He is the Sid Vicious you see in the mirror, not the Phil Collins that everyone sees when they look your way. Safe writing is the kind that does not take risks. It is concerned with making the reader think that the author is nice, or at least not hate him or her. You should risk that wrath.

I admire writers who write with their arse on display. Your arse, it is not that area down the back of your pants. It is the thing that (sorry) makes people laugh. This is about putting in a joke when you're not sure if it's the right moment. This is about deriving mirth from questionable sources. If there is humour there, it must be funny. Why deny it? Suppress gallows humour and you end up with sick jokes circulating via email and no one knowing who started them (until it all blows over... and then everyone claims them).

I admire authors who write with their tits out. Not sure why, just sounds like a good idea.

Tuesday, January 25, 2005

New Blog Manifesto

With this new blog comes hope, and a new sense of freedom. Gone are the shackles of my old site, the restrictions that held me back and made my life hell. Now I will be able to...


  • post any time I like
  • get more drive-by visitors (via the "next blog" button)
  • embrace the brave new blogging world
  • worry about being seen to jump the tired old blogging bandwagon
  • waste more time
  • hinder my chances of completing my novel-in-progress
  • worry about blog appearance
  • tinker with blog appearance
  • worry about what to post about
  • end up posting nothing
  • worry about posting nothing
  • post about worrying about posting nothing
  • worry about posting about worrying about posting nothing
  • drink more alcohol
  • start smoking again
  • post lists that are so long I don't even remember what they're about
  • remember what they're about
  • realise that they never really warranted a list in the first place
  • drop acid, just to have something interesting to post about
  • worry about how my life is spiralling out of control
  • post while tripping on acid
  • enjoy the experience
  • trip and post again, remembering how cool it was
  • not enjoy it this time (bad trip)
  • worry about actually posting myself bodily onto the internet (during bad trip)
  • post myself bodily onto the internet
  • finally come down off my trip, only to realise that I now exist only in binary form
  • worry about that
  • revel in my new binary form
  • get run over by a drive-by visitor (via the "next blog" button)