Do you watch "Jeopardy?"
by Rosalind Foley on 08/29/12
A category in the game the other day called for contestants to change the meaning of a word by adding one letter. Playing around with the notion later I thought for some reason how adding an 's' to the word comic makes it cosmic. At first that sounds like a big stretch, but maybe it isn't.
Too often I think we writers get carried away with grand ideas, striving for greatness if not fame (i.e. the cosmic) when real genius lies in the familiar ordinary (the seemingly trivial or comic.)
Granted, it takes a certain amount of ego to write. Still, we need to remember to take the work seriously. . ..but not ourselves.
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