I don’t know if this is a feature of everyone’s twitter experience or just mine because of the particular intersections of my interests, but I feel like someone starts a discussion at least once a month about how to play, write, or depict interesting villains. Or how a specific type of villainy can make for a more interesting story than heroics. Or how a different specific type of villainy could actually be the most ruthless and most difficult to fight against. It is always interesting to read through these discussions and then the counter arguments people frequently make that villains don’t always need a sympathetic reason to be acting villainously, but there’s one specific argument that always catches my attention and interest.
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Write Anything *In Progress*
They told me I could write anything
And foolishly I believed them.
They ooh’d and aah’d at every word
Does “them” have any non-awful rhymes?
In the years since my accolades
I’ve learned a difficult lesson
Teachers say to write what you know
But I know about as much as Jon Snow
And though I’d hate to let these lines go
They don’t fit into this poem, so…
Writing about only hetero white dudes
Gets super friggin’ boring
If I did only that
All my readers would be snoring
(Turn the above ideas
Into something that fits
The poetic form
Of the previous bits)
Witty lines to point out my growth
That reference a fresh meme
I’ve learned I can’t write everything
So I wrote this poem instead.