I am a copy machine.
I don’t know how to write. When I want to write things, I think. And nothing comes to mind. So, I copy. Books, television, movies, music, anything. I like poetry the best. It’s like all the writing was done for me. To copy. Plus, it’s easy to find little things, parts of poems, not the whole thing, and use them to make stories or to add to stories, which is nice. Because so much success in the art world depends on popularity, I copy things. And because the quickest way to popularity is to pretend to be somebody else, I make sure that I am never myself.
My favorite writer to copy, right now, is Sylvia Plath. Sylvia Plath loves to use the color black in her poetry. Just as you can wear black at any time, you can use it to make your stories more popular. It is so convenient. Black can be used in a story for almost any scene. And it can be inserted into a sentence or a paragraph at any moment, making that sentence or paragraph more elegant, more striking. Timeless. Like Sylvia Plath.
As a writer, I tend to think too much, which produces a lot of sitting and staring. And not writing. So, another thing that’s nice about copying stuff is that you don’t have to think too much. You can just look at some writing, say “I like the way that looks,” and put it into your book. Then find something else “Oh, I really want that ‘silent tree’ there. Yes. That looks great!” And just keep on copying stuff until you have a novel.
It would be neat if novels were more like color-by-numbers books. Then everyone could write a really colorful novel. That would be the best.
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