Yeah OK first of all â do not go and kick someoneâs car right this minute. Just hear me out first because Iâm going to tell you howâŠ
If youâre a writer or an aspiring writer, you have every reason in the world to kick someoneâs car! But only on paper though. Unless someoneâs car kicked you first. Then the gloves come off dude! You take that sucker down!
We live in a society where weâre taught to be nice â and thatâs good. Nice is good. Nice makes things nice⊠(wow thatâs such a NOT very impressive linguistic sentence *slaps wrist*). Anyway! Every so often, we come across a not-Nice person. Whether itâs in a grocery store and thereâs this big jerk HOVERING behind you as if his deep mucus-rattling breathing in your neck is going to make the queue go faster! Thatâs not nice. OR drivers⊠I cannot begin to count the amount of no-Nice driving Iâve encountered. Especially living here in Cape Town!
And that is when I kick cars. Câmon, we all get frustrated. Does not matter whether youâre the nicest human on this planet â you will have days where youâre frustrated, or tired, or angry, or sad or just in a frigginâ mood. Youâve had that, right? And we can go into âThe Law of Attractionâ here and actually see why, when youâre in a bad mood, will you attract scumbags in grocery stores and dumbass drivers. But we wont. Not for this blog.
What we will do is justify your imagination. And weâll justify using your imagination to feel better about a particularly frustrating or enraging situation. And weâll kick cars together! All on paper⊠Or like me right now, sitting in a coffee shop with my Macbook. Iâm about to write violent things while having a flat white coffee⊠Somehow that sounds pathologicalâŠ. Moving on!
When youâre having a conversation with someoneâŠletâs say an arrogant or pompous someone â and this someone says something that either makes you feel infuriated or embarrassed. What do we normally do? Some of us might have a quip at the guy (or girl). But most of us will internalize and walk away, replaying the pompous someoneâs meanness and feel unsettled⊠Now what you should do as a writer is to rewind that conversation. Go back to the exact moment when the pompous someone said the offending thing: now picture exactly what you wouldâve done or saidâŠDO IT! DONâT HOLD BACK! (I think 99% of what youâre thinking right now â will be considered criminal. So luckily you wonât physically do it. But WRITE IT.)
You as a writer have the power to be at least a version of a psychologist for yourself. You have the most cathartic tool in the world: the power to transform thought and energy into words and communication. You can take all that negative energy that arises from time to time â and shape the energy into a character, action, scene, message or story. Like a sculptor using clay, you use energy to make new things out of the energy inside you, or energies sent your way. Â Bad or good.
So even if someone sends you really crappy energy â YOU change it into an awesome literally and figuratively ass kicking scene⊠I have 3 books coming out between now and September. Itâs a trilogy â but I promise you, there are things I write in that book I wouldâve loved to do in real life – but Nhakira does them, and she does it well, I’m proud of my girl… Some of its plain scary and I admit it tooâŠ
Thus, to summarize â when someone makes you angry⊠Donât suppress the anger! Think up a scene in your writer-brain where you act out exactly what you wouldâve liked to do!
With your writing abilities â you can change everyday annoyances, frustrations and enraging situations into tangible scenes on paper. Thatâs powerful stuff. Your readers WILL relate to those scenes, because those scenes will be things THEY thought of too and they will love you for verbalizing their desires⊠See what Iâm driving towards here?
And yes, obviously the same goes for happiness, and happy thoughts! But weâre not writing about happy thoughts right now. No, we thinking about kicking cars and growing huge mech-warrior arms with which to pick up scumbags in grocery stores and shake them upside down until they cry and promise to wear stilettos! And we like it!
âŠHey, I feel good for having written that whole mech-arm thing! This writer is officially frustration and headache free⊠đ
Stay awesome you reader you! đ
JH
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