Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Compose-Compost

This blog is a secret repository for my ramblings. I was inspired by my friend Matty, who gave me a little talk about daily writing using the term "rich loam". Somehow this idea of a compost pile really resonated with me. It might be a self-esteem issue. Here is what he said:

Well, let us see. I write very much less than I should, and that is why so little new stuff is getting done. It has always been at those times that I have been in the practice of regularly writing that a good idea becomes a story or poem or whatever. For instance, in the case of the Bisque, it was merely my saying at a dinner one time that "this is the kind of soup you propose to." And then that seed found not the dry bony dust of my skull but the rich loam of earth that comes from writing every day no matter what crap you put down. And then it sprouts, a process which certainly can seem magical. And then there is the editing and workshopping, which are definitely not magical seeming, but magical in effect to be sure..


And so Compostable Bits is born.