Dad’s Influence On My Writing
Still with me.
Still with me.
I loved my dad. I always looked up to him.
I know my dad loved me.
Not in a touchy-feely, throw-me-up-in-the-air kind of way, but in a reasoned, “Luke, I'm your father” kind of way.
He was WW II generation. All the discipline of the Army Air Corps during the big war, he went directly into the radical, just-as-bad corporate world from his discharge on. He knew about pecking order.
Of course, that meant I was destined to be part of the Woodstock generation, the exact opposite of him. Our jigsaw puzzle was not always a tight fit, but we did love each other. Just look at the finished picture on the box.
My dad always waited for permission to do anything. I never could wait very gracefully.
Dad always said that anything good was worth waiting for. My mind always told me to go for an idea before I could talk myself out of it.
If I noodled with a story too long, I would never hit publish. If I waited for it to be perfect first, when I did hit publish, it was way too late.
Perfect was a concept I was willing to sacrifice to use the “ship” concept.
Consequently, my stories may have a wart that still needs work sometimes. And I always have a very tough time waiting for publications to give me the nod.
Heck, I started my own publication once to get around this, so now I have to make myself wait occasionally.
I have to admit the publications I now work with have been so responsive and so helpful, I love working with them.
I use my own publication as an overflow for when my warts get backed up down at the factory.
In summation, my impatience, so foreign to my upbringing, serves me both well and poorly in my writing.
I have no patience or mercy for inspiration. I expect business when I need a job done. But I need to have more patience with publications just because I am ready for business. I am looking for a happy… well you guessed it.
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