Writing: The "fertilizer" pile Last Updated: 29jun12 Every now and then, I fancy myself to be a writer. I can be good sometimes, but I'm not great. In, and especially outside of my comics, I've been working on snippets of writing. I've been storing these writings for years in various notebooks and (physical) folders. I refer to these collections as "fertilizer" because most of the material is shit. But, every now and then, a rose will grow. The (lack of) quality should be obvious to those who have seen the "stories.txt" file. The stories I'm working on are not all new. Some have been stewing for years. Some have been completed. Most have not, but are only one little push away from being done. All of my writing proves Sturgeon's Law that "90% of everything is crap." To Sturgeon's Law I would like to add my own observation that very few people will even see a decent percentage of that 90%. In my case, I consider that a blessing. Just like TV. If you think that what you see is bad, keep in mind that there is plenty of unreleased material that's not good enough to show. ----------------------------------------------------------------- --eof