Crap

[thisnewday]

I sometimes wonder where I get off writing such crap. And whether I really believe it when I'm writing it.

Because there are clearly things that we know and things that we don't know. Like knowing that I really wanted to be on the Colts bus for last year's summer tour. And that I really needed to be there in order to write credibly about it.

To be able to write with the genuine sort of passion that's rooted in experience...

Comments

[swamp-rose.livejournal.com]

Many rely on research rather than experience to write "knowledgeably" about others... such as people who write about long dead subjects...

"Experience" - if one has been on many buses, seen many summers, is familiar with the subject, can that one not bring one's own passion to the subject and write what it would have been like if one HAD been there? Using a composite??

For instance I have a "passion" for the works and life of Jane Austin, but would feel deprived if I actually went there.... to her time... because what I can imagine is not affected by "real things" like the sanitary conditions of the time... personal hygiene .... halitosis .... just forget about it!

[olbuksings.livejournal.com]

Welll, maybe that's one difference between writing about something that's buried deep in the past and something more contemporary. There are lots more people around to keep you honest. And from reading the blogs and talking to people who've actually been involved in the summer tours, there's just no way that my mind or heart would allow me to fake it.

In another time, and in a vastly different context, Ken Kesey said, "You're either on the bus or you're off the bus." That pretty well sums up how I feel about the DCI tour...