Jack Campbell Jr.

Tag: creativity

  • You Are Not a Beautiful and Unique Snowflake

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    Listen up, maggots. You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You’re the same decaying organic matter as everything else. – Tyler Durden in Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club Writer’s are a fragile bunch.  We are primarily solitary creatures, except when we are gathering with other writers to talk about writing.  We…

  • Opening a Vein

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    “There is nothing to writing.  All you do is sit at a typewriter and open a vein.” – Red Smith Writing can be difficult, especially knowing what to write.  I’ve been reading several blogs lately about ideas and the constant influx of them when you don’t need them, their apparent extinction when you do, and…

  • Mirrors to Remind Ourselves

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    There is a quote in the movie Memento.  “We all need mirrors to remind ourselves who we are.”  I thought of that movie in relation to writing, just recently. I was shocked to realize that I did not have a copy of any of my writing from my college creative writing courses on my laptop. …