The following poem invites you into the whimsical and wondrous world of living like a writer, where every moment is a canvas, and every thought is a stroke of the pen.
This piece aims to capture the essence of living like a writer, the endless dance between imagination and reality, where mundane details can spark extraordinary ideas, and the humdrum of everyday life is transformed into a tapestry of stories and words.
Live like a Jungian
with wits like Twain,
and the delivery of Vonnegut.
Leak thoughts sublime
as if Emerson wrote letters
to Walt Whitman,
in a backward time capsule.
Opened in the epic horizons
of a Kantian dream,
with each scene as detailed
as Mary Shelley's thoughts.
Poe configured the scene for talks
With Clive Barker's cursed conundrums,
cracked open to Palahniuk's blunt form.
To live like a writer
poured full with moments,
undone, and done.
How To Live Like a Writer isn’t just a guide—it’s an art form.
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Photo by Wilhelm Gunkel on Unsplash.
The poem was written by a dark fiction author, Willy Martinez, to be released on the Ritual Blog for Mind on Fire Books.
Author of dark fiction Mythology, “The Sigua” and short visceral fiction, “Flora.”
Willy Martinez is also featured in our anthology Mad Men, available for sale now.
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