58. a sitting-down stand-up comedian
i admire people who can tell stories and make people laugh, laugh hard, when they deliver the punchline at the end. to capture someone's attention and engross them in a fantastically amusing tale with my words, voice and story.
for some reason, it's just fundamentally so important to me that i'm funny. and not only funny, but punchline-witty type of funny. not just butt-of-the-joke funny. like class-clown smart-alec funny. well, i guess that's kind of how i see stand-up comedians. but it's true. when they get behind the mic, they just seem so wisely intelligent and powerfully insightful and charmingly authentic.
whenever i try to tell a story in a conversation, i always get lost with where to start and where i'm going.
it's kind of like that with writing my short stories too. how do you know where an interesting story begins, where it ends?
i hope i can look back at some of the blog posts later on and marvel at how interesting and funny and sincere these are. i hope other people can appreciate it for that too. it's fun to just write for, well, for fun, but i also wonder -- where will this passion take me?
when inspiration hits like a current, my hands start to move. i don't really know where i'll end up. i have some vague idea based on a tentative title, and that's about it. yet it's so true. i guess that's what makes it so true. the sincere improvisation of each word and sentence. no deletes or edits.