Anger Produces

Posted on January 31, 2003 in Writing

I often produce best by getting mad.

My mother gave us a free weekend at the Lawrence Welk Resort in Escondido. Lynn paid for the vacation in Mexico. I haven’t brought anything into the household in years.

I got so mad at myself that I started writing a story which had been circling the inside of my cranium since I returned from Mexico. It’s set in Greece. (Could this become a pattern: ideas I conceive in Mexico get set in Greece and the ones I conceive in Greece get set in Mexico?)

Does anyone else get the creative juices working like this?

Dark secret: I was coming back to delete the unhappy messages of two days ago when I found that rainbow and jadedju had already started commenting on the things.

Just couldn’t bring myself to delete them once they’d been commented upon.