Jax Burgoyne Writes

"Are you a sports fan?  If so, what draws you to a particular sport?  If not, what repels you about the sports world?"

There is a good feeling about running around in a teamly way.  Unless you suck.

I don't entirely suck, but often when I think of doing sport I remember a time when I was swimming at secondary school (1st year there) in some competition and I dropped the whatever it was I was supposed to carry.  It was a relay, and the next person couldn't start until I managed to dive down to the bottom of the deep end to pick it back up.  Horrific.

I'm also not a fan of getting out of breath or my knees hurting or stitch or, after what can only be termed a moderate amount of exercise, the aching of my poor little muscles.  I do like walking :)  I can make up stories then.

In terms of watching sport...as a social thing, e.g. if it's the World Cup - well I used to like watching England matches with friends.  But otherwise...why would you?  It is like that thing that went around Facebook about sports interviews - this is how they always go:

Interviewer: Why do you think you lost the sport?
Sport person: We didn't sport well enough.
Interviewer: What will you do next time?
Sport person: We will try to sport better.

I guess sport is a bit like religion.  Something groups of people like to care too much about because it tribes them.

"Respond to this quote from Junot Diaz in any manner you please: 'In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.'"

Now I did this a long time ago.  Looking at it now, I don't entirely understand what I wrote....But here you go, this was my threefold response:

1. This is one of those sentences that says it is very meaningful but is actually seedless wank.

2. (I circled 'you need' from the quote and did a big bendy arrow to...this:) So someone who is dedicated and plans and works hard?  Like today, when I realised I am not a genius writer (in a liberating manner), but that writing could be a job, kept on at: walking up and write and left and one*.  (That bit is gibberish, right?) Or someone who is as messed up as the character they are writing about?  A la Heath Ledger becoming the joker and dying?

3. This sentence is NOT profound.  It is simply so vague and needing meaning that it sucks out our own profundity.  (And NO, that is not the same as being profound.)

P.S. Look what I did with Photoshop!
​*It could be that I just can't read my own handwriting.