Fanning the Flames: How to Let Your Anger Fuel Your Writing and/or other Positive Things

Step 1:  Be a docile thing.  Get along with most people all the time. 

Step 2:  Smile as the world critiques you in all your attempts to do the right thing. 

Step 3:  Invite your family to criticize.  It's not enough that the world has it's opinion but even better to hand your family a knife to poke you a bit more.

Step 4:  It's okay to bleed.  Don't worry if you become light-headed it's just an effect of the bleeding.  SMILE.  Because you are a docile thing.

Step 5:  Oh Lyfe.  Lyfe has purchased a splintered bat and applied all sorts of poisonous things to it and decided to beat you while you lay on the ground bleeding.

Step 6:  BEAT ME LYFE!  BEAT ME.

Step 7:  Lyfe beats you.

Step 8:  You stop yelling.  Mostly because you've momentarily tapped out.  Blacked out.  Out cold.  You're just out. 

Step 9:  You recover and you do something.  Find something you love.  You bleed onto it a little.  And for one quiet slice of time you are happy.

Step 10:  Your family comes back with their knife.  Lyfe returns with more poisonous goodies.  And Werk has been informed about the fun being had and wants in too.

Step 11:  ...  ... ... ... You're... out. 

Step 12:  Lyfe.  Werk.  Fam.  Peeps.  Everyone just there. 

Step 13:  Rinse and repeat. 

Step 14:  Lyfe.  Werk.  Fam.  Peeps.  Everyone.  Everyone and their mama.  Then a dash of imaginary critters because you've entered that realm of your mind where it's sort of safe.  But not really.

Step 15:  Rinse and repeat. 

Step 16:  They start to come for you again.  Just as your wrapping the wounds from the last time in your corner.  That tiny place you've made and you see it, it's about to happen all over again.  Curled up in that corner won't protect you.  So you stand.  You stand with your imaginary critters and you go nuclear. 

Step 17:  Let's get nuclear.  Nu-cle-ar.  It's your theme song.

Step 18:  My song brings all the critters to the yard.  Damn right, its better than yours.  I'd like to teach you but I don't have Square, so I can't charge :\

Step 19:  You stole moments.  Kept them whenever you made it to that secluded corner and had your time to do what you wanted.  You let Lyfe, Werk, and Fam drive some ideas.  They fueled you for a moment but really...

Step 20:  You remind yourself of the Eleanor Roosevelt "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

Step 21:  You find peace.  You come into you.  You do you.  And someday soon you might have to rinse and repeat. 

Step 22:  History repeats itself if you don't learn from it. 

Step 23:  True Story.

Step 24:  I just want to get to a solid marker.

Step 25:  Okay.  I've arrived.