Cautiously optimistic about thinking out of the box – not sure
you can be a novelist and follow either one of these principles – stupid slogans
that came to be when I was working in entertainment and book publishing, both
over-used and as uncreative as the warning within. I wonder if anyone actually thought they’d be
hopeless, stuck to the confines of Twitter word counts and Facebook special parameters
that require fast-food style thought, little investment and zero attention.
It can be effective if one is learning how to create clever
ads. It can be effective to share blips
of dialogue and announcements once sent on paper via truckload mail.
(Speaking of which, damn, those postal workers work 24/7
now! The red, white and blue is such a
different take on going postal.
Completely defies jammed creativity slogans, trumped by “Work-Your-Ass-off-Ism.” Out on the road on a Sunday… to deliver bills
and junk mail. Really, people should
deliver more human mail. Send a card to
someone now!)
Anything long is short and the hope promised with cautious optimism
has a reach truncated by fear. Cautious
optimism isn’t possible. Thinking
outside the box – necessary. A coffin
has a shape similar to a social networking platform. Our longer modern lives have somehow burrowed
us in this cyanide capsule for the brain.
(Writing for social media posts is fun, but it’s placebo for
the fiction writer. Add a bit of
paranoia and someone out there is also stealing all of your ideas.)
If you’re that cautious likely the true fear is
accountability. I was married to that
fluffy pillow of thought so I know, and the certainty that it could smother me
in my sleep.)
Someone will undoubtedly come up with a pill to absorb the
classic novels. What a time-saver! Absorb
all of Moby Dick or War and Peace in this one little pill that holds granules
of literary treasures. It’s the Alice in
Wonderland for English literature – less invasive than the regular cerebral
upload and covered by most healthcare plans.
Guaranteed to allow you to think out of the box AND impress your
friends. Quick acting in most cases,
side effects could include muttering that resembles Tourette’s Syndrome,
blindness for an unspecified duration, ticks, or involuntary convulsions, or
seizures caused by the intense absorption of intelligence via words into the
blood stream. Overdose can also lead to
years of hermetic isolation that researchers attribute to the actual time
necessary to read the ingested tomes of literary excellence.
The clear message here is to read between the pages and the
lines of big things. Words are nothing
to be afraid of. They can be your most
reliable friend that offer hope by telling the truth. I’d like to think that will keep me out of
the box for a while.
Or, at least save me from future rants like this.
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