The Cliche Of Being A Writer In New York

What an intro! to your disappointment, my text will probably fail to explain all those questions. But we are going to wander around the cliche stuff. So stay tuned.

I'm not going to wiki or google cliche, but I'll do my best in explaining what -at least- a cliche means to me. It is something that has been done, seen and absorbed many times. Both from a situational aspect and from the characters that act within that situational framework. A cliche is the most expected of all of the expected.

Perhaps it would have been easier to say that, for example, an Italian will speak loudly and will make that weird gesture by putting all the tips of his fingers together, and move them up and down, down and up, in a repeated fashion.

Having cleared that out. What about New York and writers?

There is a revolving cliche of a broke ass, empty pockets, cigarette addicted, socially failed and smelly shabby writer in NYC.

When someone says

The usual response is

And the writer goes something like this

I don't really know why I am writing this piece, at almost 3:30 am on a Friday. To be honest, just to get my freaking Contra profile verified. Questioning cliches as an excuse when I already know what I say is a clear cliche.

The funniest part is that I actually intend to go to NYC to write. And break that bloody cliche apart. Tear it from the seams wide open, and pulverize it with success.

If it worked for some, it worked for me. Instead of living in the probability, I chose to live in the possibility. And that means breaking the molds. Why do I say that? As a wrapper for this non-article. Cliches are only pre-fabricated mental stopping walls that hinder people from accomplishing.

And you, achieving and accomplishing, are the Dollyo Chagi (kick) that busts 'em