The trouble with writers

I have no interest in the airiness of it. I am not some emo, arm cutting, pot smoking 20 something who wants a voice.. i have one, i use it often, and the only meaning that "underground" has for me is parking.

I dress well, i watch jersey shore even though i know i lost a few brain cells afterwards. I care about my weight and whether or not my shoes match my purse.... I'm a writer.

I could give a shit about Alice Munro, and it takes me a while to think of how to express myself, because believe it or not reading books does not make me a dictionary or a thesaurus. 

I loved Twilight and found myself daydreaming about great sex with Edward Cullen every other page or so, no she's not a literary genius, but shit she can spin a story, and that's what this is about right? this is why were here right? because somewhere down the line  we realized we liked a good story, and more then that we loved to tell a good story.

 i remember the first book i ever read, i remember the best book i ever read. I still heed the words told to me by my Grade 2 teacher " treat the book with respect," because of this i silently apologize every time i drop my novel on the ground. I would never break the binding or color on the cover, and i feel horrible when i doggy ear the pages... that's about as eccentric as i get.

 I don't have a "collection" of books i put on a shelf so i can show off how big a book i can read  or how many books I've read,  or how very literary my choices of novel are. My books are in a drawer in my bedroom, because its convenient to have them there.

 I buy my books at Chapters, yes i know there are small second hand bookstores that are failing because of conglomerates, and don't get me wrong i always fight for the underdog... but Chapters is down the street so... I'm sorry?

You will never, ever, ever find me writing my next big piece or reading my novel in Starbucks. A) any more then 2  bucks for a coffe is a fucking rip off, and B) how can you concentrate? i bet you cant! i bet being out in the open makes you feel like your doing something important.... i write in my room... i read in my car.

 i make spelling mistakes, I'm pretty sure i misuse semi-colons, and i often start a new sentence with because. I love reading the book and watching the movie. I'm not dark or mysterious, I'm not a loner and I'm not starving. I think its ridiculous if you get your best writing ideas by lying on the  floor and looking at the ceiling, i get mine by putting a pen in my hand and thinking about it.

This is not an artsy fartsy career path, I'm not some bohemian hipster or whatever the fuck their called. Its a job, its a career!  i love books, even the shitty ones, even the romantic corny ones, the harlequin romances, the bibliographies, the art books that have no words in them just great pictures.

I have a passion for this,  but its not a lifestyle choice its a career choice so the only thing you should be looking at for proof is the page.

So, can i get a job please?