A Writer Writes, But…
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A writer writes, but a writer has to have something helpful to say. And, even then, people won’t listen unless they’re entertained in the process. Most people won’t. A writer’s body of work must be coherent. Mine isn’t. It’s a mélange, a potpourri of the random thoughts of a perpetually wandering mind — a mind that ranges the Universe collecting trivia, like one of those hard-rubber “Ace” hair combs when held over tiny scraps of paper. My old friend, former critical-writing professor and mentor, Manfred Wolf, says, “It’s time you wrote a book.”
I scan my GoogleDrive, and my own voluminous blog (VernonMilesKerr.com) trying to find a coherent thread, something that could be tied together with a thesis and thus result in a book that’s both helpful and entertaining.
I guess, one recurring theme is the negative impact of religion (generally) on the human story. With a sub-theme of how do you emancipate humans from the deeply inculcated, youthful brain-washing that nearly all of us get? How do you make such a serious and explosively sensitive subject — entertaining? A novel? What genre? Or just a big, long rambling look at the history of religions and their negative effect upon history — along with commentary. Nah, that would only help the scholarly. — UNLESS, you made it something like a Monty Python flick. Hmmmm…Am I onto something?
In my opinion, “Religion,” per se, wouldn’t be half-bad if people wouldn’t take it so seriously—AND if they’d keep it in the privacy of their own homes. What do y’all think?