Really. I should. I’m sitting here with a whole story idea in my head, and I’m too scared to sit and put it down on paper.
I’m a chicken. I’m not proud of this, but at least I’ll own up to it.
The thing is, I’ve discovered that when I start to write stories, they tend to be a little dark. Scratch that. They tend to be really messed up and super dark. Which, if you’re Stephen King definitely works in your favor. However, if you’re me, it just tends to be scary. I don’t like to think that there’s that much darkness in me. Or, maybe I just don’t like acknowledging that my brain is able to come up with stories that are really messed up.
Of course, maybe if I actually completed my stories, instead of freaking myself out with them and quitting half-way through, I’d have something awesome.
And maybe, it’s 2 a.m., and I should be sleeping, and instead am in the process of realizing that Stephen King and George R.R. Martin have written pretty messed up stuff, and they don’t seem to regret it or be freaked out by it. It’s 2 a.m. and I just realized that this post lacks any grammar correctness.
I shall be banned from the Grammar Rodeo.
I feel that way about art sometimes. Like, I’ll start to draw something and it’ll turn out really sad/confrontational/dark, and then I’ll chicken out and quit because I’m too afraid to show that kind of thing to people.