Wastepaper Bin – Daily Object Writing – Nov 15
Nov 14th, 2009 | By admin | Category: Daily WritingA repository of discarded thoughts and ideas. An inverted volcano wanting to spew forth a lava of rejection. Paper fish swimming in a tank of air. Classic scenes of the frustrated writer, the pen scribbling on the pad, ripped from the bindings, paper cutting into his palm as he compresses and fragments and rejects another idea. Balloons of imagination again start to fill with the helium of great ideas, they’re tied off and floated and then he takes the shotgun and shoots them down and they become more tightly compressed balls that are shot into the bin. He imagines a basketball crowd cheering on his relentless desire for perfection and uniqueness, he’s almost up to one hundred points now – even thrown a few three pointers from outside the ring, but why won’t this concept come and play ball? Maybe the idea is already there, lying sobbing in the bin, it’s ego was not big enough to say – hey! Notice me! Has he just been gliding over the surface skimming for something immediate instead of taking the time to take one thing and dig it and fertilise it and grow it until it becomes THE idea?
