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Jokes that are gratuitously offensive are synonymous with bad writing to me. I'm offended as a writer first and as a person second.
The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.
I don't think it's shameful to admit that some days your time can be better spent reading than writing.
The hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second which comes with a sort of mastery.
Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry.
I've been doing my big theater projects, which take years, and writing a song here and there.
It takes the pressure off of your better players to know they don't always have to be on top of their game for the team to do well.
If you want to take writing on, you should pay writing the respect it deserves, which is to say, reading it.
I feel more at home knowing I'm not really at home. It takes all the pressure off you trying to fit in!
