The blogosphere is all persnickety snark and nobody loves me and I’m tired of it. It’s all did you see what she’s doing and why didn’t I get chosen and why is she popular anyway. We’re all spending so much time trying to work out why everyone else is doing well that no one is paying attention anymore.
We’re all exactly the same.
We’ve ended up cookie cuttered into lovehearts and kittens.
Not the real kind of kitten that shits behind the couch and scratches your toddler for no reason either.
No, we’ve gotten basket kittens with cute expressions and no yowling at 3am.
Basket kittens are boring. Clean is boring.
There is nothing amazing happening here and the same conversation just keeps happening in a never ending circle.
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No one becomes amazing by being the same as everyone else. Every brilliant mind has a stroke of insanity in there, a little bit of fuck what everyone else is doing and why can’t I do it my way.
I don’t get inspired by a clean house, or decorated cookies, halloween costumes and bento box lunchboxes.
Cough. Spit.
My inspiration comes from grit and grime, from the blood that boils under the surface and the ways that the puzzle pieces refuse to sit together. I’m inspired by pieces of crazy, by The Bloggess aiming at being furiously happy and Amanda Palmer being exactly who she is. I admire women who do exactly what the fuck they want and damn society and its boxes.
I don’t want to be that person who has no imagination left. I want to write words and drown in them, to tell untruthful stories and have them read.
I don’t want a perfect house, or tidy silent children.
I want brilliance.
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What is your inspiration? What makes you feel like you’re achieving something? Is it dark and gritty, or is it shiny and pretty?
Good Lord V, those are bloody deep thoughts for a Monday!!! I’ll give you an answer when I know what it is…. cause currently I have no f’ing CLUE.
I’m inspired by different things all the time. Sometimes it’s raw pieces of writing and sometimes it’s cookies. I come across people that are worried about why they didn’t get this or that and wondering why she’s doing this or that – but not the entire blogosphere, not at all. I read a wide variety of blogs and don’t believe we are all exactly the same.
Write how you want to write Veronica. Be who you want to be, write the stuff that you want to read. Don’t read the stuff you find so samey or spit-on-able. But you can’t expect brilliance around every corner either. It’s as unrealistic as tidy houses in pinterest boxes.
I’m inspired by EATING cookies – I’ll give you that. Lamingtons are better though.
I will cop the fact that I was (grossly) generalising, but I also think that as a whole, a lot of bloggers are very same same. And my cough, spit should have been linked to a post I wrote about mummyblogging (http://somedaywewillsleep.com/the-harlotry-of-mummyblogging/) rather than finding blogs “spit-on-able” iykwim.
Why can’t I expect brilliance? Aim for the stars, baby.
Well sweetheart reading this I think that, As your Mother, I can dust off my hands and declare, “My work here is done!” I also demand brilliance and I am pleased to see that you are living up to your end of the bargain.
I want to have sex with this blog post.
Yes! Yes! A million times yes!
Now can you come yell that at me when I start the whole ‘why didn’t I get on that list/panel/event’ bullshit… 🙂
Just to prove how samey same we all are, I have a post sitting in my drafts for tomorrow just like this! Well, mine probably has less swear words in it :). Now everyone will think I’m copying. But I totally agree that the blogosphere can seem a bit homogenised. It’s to be expected. A lot of us are going through the same crap, dealing with the same issues, living in the same political and economic environments. But we seem to forget we are not the same as each other. The one thing that will make our blogs different, make our readers sit up and notice, is us. Sure, we could march to the beat of a different drummer, but I say take it one more step and create your own beat.
Only now am I exiting a bizarre void of shit and unhappiness but I agree 100% on what you have said here.
Have some good quotes from a book in the back of my head but can’t remember them and my hearsay would never do the quotes justice.
But yes, agree.
<3 love your stuff
ive been noticing this a lot too, and was about to write a post about it!! Heh, now I’ll have to think of someting else. LOL 🙂
Dear Veronica, I’m always Grit, and not very often gritty ! (I know you understand what I mean) Take care ! Bises Grit
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