Gary on Snozzberries

People don’t always get what I’m trying to say with my fiction. Some might say that makes me a poor writer because I cannot communicate what I’m intending. I’m of a different understanding.

I just color outside of the lines.

The philosophy that I’m holding to is that I am writing for me and me alone. If folks pick up what I’m doing and like it, that’s great! If they don’t, there are plenty of other writers trying to vie for their attention. I’m just going to write what feels right.

Plenty of people have told me that I have talent. I’m not writing for them. Plenty of people have also given me strange looks when I try to explain my story (either in concept or the prose I’ve just written). I’m not writing for them either.

I’m doing this for me. If my passion within my own work is strong enough, others will feel it too. This is what writers do. They share feelings and infect others with emotion. They invite others into the dark recesses of imagination to partake in a shared hallucination of mind and spirit.

Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley said it best:

Come with me and you'll be
In a world of pure imagination
Take a look and you'll see
Into your imagination

We'll begin with a spin
Trav'ling in the world of my creation
What we'll see will defy
Explanation

If you want to view paradise
Simply look around and view it
Anything you want to, do it
Want to change the world, there's nothing to it

There is no life I know
To compare with pure imagination
Living there, you'll be free
If you truly wish to be

If you want to view paradise
Simply look around and view it
Anything you want to, do it
Want to change the world, there's nothing to it

There is no life I know
To compare with pure imagination
Living there, you'll be free
If you truly wish to be

Yeah… I color outside of the lines and I'm going to keep on doing it. I'm going to take the risks that may get me the odd looks, but it may also reap me the greatest reward, stirring feelings inside of you.