I bet you were expecting this to be a blog about some dude making juice. \u00a0He probably cuts a whole bunch of oranges in half and twists them over a juicer. \u00a0He probably winds up questioning life with a glass of juice by the end of it. \u00a0I don’t blame you for thinking that. \u00a0That’s not too different from what I usually write. \u00a0I don’t know why it is that I write stuff like that. \u00a0I think it’s partially that I like to try to make people think. \u00a0I try to catch them by surprise with what I write, but that’s kind of becoming stale for me. \u00a0I’m not sure what I need to do about that, but I don’t want to let my writing go stale. \u00a0I think the same reason that I usually write that stuff is the reason I’m writing this, I want to defy expectations. \u00a0I think that I’ve set an expectation for what my writing should be like, and I guess this is me trying to break that. \u00a0I just don’t want to get stuck in a rut. \u00a0You look at authors that get old, and critics always say that they aren’t as good as they used to be because now they’re just putting out more of the same stuff even if the same stuff from before was good the first time. \u00a0I really don’t want to let this happen to me. \u00a0I have ideas for things that are different, but I don’t know if they’re good. \u00a0I guess that’s part of the never-ending risk taking that comes with being a writer. \u00a0You never really know what’s going to work, but if you stick to one thing, it’ll get old after a while. \u00a0I just gave this a random title that sounded like a title I’d give a short story when I started writing this, but I feel like it kind of applies to what I’m talking about regardless of my original intention in naming it what I did. \u00a0I feel like I’ve been juicing the same fruit for a while now, and if I’m not careful, it’ll run dry. \u00a0I know that I need to try other fruits, different kinds of fruits, but I’m afraid because maybe the juice won’t be as sweet. \u00a0I guess finding out that a certain kind of juice isn’t worth drinking would be better than squeezing the same dry fruit that once held a sweet juice until the end of time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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