I have to admit. I haven’t been writing anything creative lately. I have been blogging for money a bit and trying to build up websites using the Keyword Academy Method which I highly recommend. I have been writing resumes and cover letters for the horrible pursuit of employment. I have been writing emails to friends and texts and all kinds of social crap like that.
Base things. Unimportant writing. “Thin text” as one of my professors would call it. Time sensitive things that become meaningless in days.
This is my confessional so I can admit things like that. I can say that writing a novel should be every moment of my day… but society has me in a stranglehold about finding a job, supporting the family, being a good friend.
I decided that Amazon might have some information for me as I perused books and thought about wasting some money on something to justify my procrastination here.
I decided to pay for some motivation… knowing full well that my local library has a lot of jazz albums I could take home for free, I’m looking for some of my beloved jazz to serve a s a bit of inspiration for me here.
Buying an album will also increase my cloud amount to 20GB for the year providing further excuses.
So what kind of jazz inspires? Hard stuff. Badass stuff. Charles Mingus and guys like him who lived jazz like I used to. If you loved the badass jazz and a unique voice in writing, check out the Beneath the Underdog
Now to the jazz badassitude. Here’s a little sample of Mingus in action.
Like I said. Badass. This is from the Triumph of the Underdog Documentary about Charles Mingus.
A writer can’t be afraid to go with the moment and change things up.
OK, let me go get some jazz and hopefully inspire myself to write a bit and leave the “laundry list writing” for later on.