Some of you may remember my request to get a tattoo paid for by my friends and readers, (an idea I stole from my friend Kj). My desire is to celebrate the mark that’s been made on me internally in my writing by marking my skin externally.
I’m hoping that anyone who has enjoyed my writing in any form, or enjoyed any of the parts of me that corollate to story, might help me a tiny bit toward getting a tattoo. I’m moving back into writing every day again, and hopefully this will offer some encouragement. A few gave in the past, the last time I asked for donations, and for that I am remarkably grateful.
The tattoo should actually be pretty cheap. The idea for the tattoo is to put the words ‘Story’ and ‘teller’, one on top of the other, (although I’ve considered letting the word stand alone as it is normally, instead), on the inside of my left wrist, in a typewriter font of my choosing.
Here are some of the reasons I would be getting this particular tattoo.
1. It would be placed on my wrist, right where one would open his veins. Ernest Hemingway said: “There’s nothing to writing, just sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” This tattoo will help me remember that I need to be learning how to bleed into my work, that it really must cost me something, and that it really must come from my heart. There will be a direct line between my heart and the tattoo on my wrist reminding me of a major part of who I am.
2. Even if I never make money writing for a living, my ever-changing work stemming from trigger fiction as well as my time screwing around with this blog has confirmed to me that I still want to write stories for the rest of my life. Without even writing complete stories, yet, writing has opened up parts of me that I’ve really loved interacting with. I want to be a storyteller for the rest of my days, and this tattoo will make that impossible for me to forget. As I transition into revising and seeing what happens as these stories start to open themselves up only makes me more excited to see what comes next.
3. I don’t just want to be a storyteller in the writing sense. I want to be a person who listens to and tells stories well; the stories of my life, the stories of those around me, the stories of those with no voice. I want my vocation, in a myriad of ways, to be ‘Storyteller.’ Thus, tattooing it on my body forever.
I would really love it if you would contribute to this tattoo. If you’ve enjoyed any of the writing here, and at trigger fiction, or even if not, the tangible support would mean so much. Even if you can only donate a dollar toward the cause, that’s one dollar closer to my first tattoo. So far, I’ve raised $4 towards a tattoo, and the folks who donated towards that are awesome. That four bucks is waiting for company.
Thanks!
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