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The Crazier the Better
My friend Paul is writing a cop novel. He’s never written anything
so ambitious—and he’s terrified. “The story is coming out dark,”
he says. “I mean twisted, weird-dark. So dark it’s scaring me.”
Paul wants to know if he should throttle back. He’s worried that
the book will come out so evil, not even Darth Vader will want
to touch it.
Answer: No way.
The darker the better, if that’s how it’s coming to him.
Suspending self-judgment doesn’t just mean blowing off the
“You suck” voice in our heads. It also means liberating ourselves
from conventional expectations—from what we think our work
“ought” to be or “should” look like.
Stay stupid. Follow your
unconventional, crazy heart.
If your notion violates every precept I’ve set forth in these pages,
tell me to go to hell. Do what that voice says.
