I am the Decadent Writer :: Personal Narrative Writing

I am the Decadent Writer I am the epitome of everything that makes the decadent writer its own category. There are many types of writers. The symbolic poetry writer thinks that the only true form of writing is poetry so obscure as to be understood only by the writer himself. The personal writer writes articles or poems so personal as to make the reader uncomfortable to just be reading the words, regardless if he knows the author or not. Then the decadent writer, a group I lead as we stare at blank sheets of paper with a pencil in hand, only to decide to go get a cookie and read some more of James Joyce’s Ulysses. I am the writer who has a dozen and a half ideas of books and papers he wants to write. But the ideas always stay in the decadent writer's head, never to see the light of paper. Like most decadent writers I have a notebook of stuff that I’ve thought up, just like Leonardo in Basketball Diaries. Some of these ideas are more complete than others. Some have an outline, a beginning, an ending, and the major idea I want to get across. Others, however, are mere references to stories in my head. Such as the line in my tattered blue notebook, â€Å"write the one about the ducks and the rabbit.† Only I know who the ducks are and why in heavens name a story would involve a duck and a rabbit, unless it’s a Disney story then it would make sense. I am the writer who every break or large chunk of days that he has no overriding commitments to attend to, is determined to get down at least a healthy beginning to his stories. The decadent writer is determined that the ideas and words will flow like water out of a person’s ear who has just been swimming. But being the decadent writer I am, nothing is ever spilled out words come gushing and rushing forth more like glue from a bottle. I am the decadent writer who puts off writing so he can read the top 50 greatest books ever, as a sort of training program for that great novel I’ll write. Because you have to babble before you talk, and you have to read before you write, right?