Lamb of God -vokalisti Randy Blythe kertoo omaelämäkertansa kirjoittamisen kehittäneen itsekuriaan

Yhdysvaltalaisen metalliyhtye Lamb of Godin vokalisti Randy Blythe antoi Vevolle haastattelun Kolumbuksessa Ohiossa 20.5.-22.5. järjestetyillä Rock On The Range -festivaaleilla. Hän vitsaili viime vuonna julkaistusta ”Dark Days: A Memoir” -omaelämäkerrastaan:

”Writing is easy. All you have to do is stare at a blank page until your eyeballs bleed.”

Hän jatkoi:

”I wrote kind of slowly. By the time I sent in my third draft, there wasn’t any revision; it was just amputation. That’s what my editor told me. Which is like ripping your soul out. You don’t want to [go through it], but, I mean, that’s why you need an editor; otherwise you get indulgent. But it’s, like, a whole chapter will disappear, and you’re, like, ’There’s a month of my life.’ Literally. There’s a whole month. Boom! I remember writing all that stuff. Gone.”

Blythe kertoi myös fiktion ja omaelämäkerran kirjoittamisen välisistä eroista:

”I’m pretty wide open as a person in general, so what you see is what you get, whether it’s on stage or in a book, or if I write with my photographs. I don’t know… Some people think I’m too blunt. I’ve had to temper that a little bit.

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”For me, writing that book, in some ways I think it was a lot easier than writing a fiction book, because I knew what was gonna happen; I lived it. On the other hand, it was a lot harder, because it’s not a happy book, and the main character, that being me, if I didn’t like something that was happening to him, I couldn’t just say, ’Okay, suddenly he’s developed the ability to fly and [he took himself] out of the situation.”

”I learned a lot about the discipline that it takes to write, ’cause that’s what it is for me. Writing itself — like sitting and the words coming and all that stuff — I mean, yeah, you work on it, but it’s not hard for me. The hard thing to do is to sit down in a chair every single day, like I said, and stare at blank page or a computer screen and just, like, ’Urgh.’ It’s not inspiration; it’s discipline. That’s exactly what it is.

”I can’t remember who said it. It was, like, ’They say, ’I only write when I’m inspired.’ Luckily, I’m inspired at precisely 9:30 a.m. every single morning.’ That’s what it is. Sit down and put your butt in the chair. That’s the hardest thing.”

Kirjassa Blythe kertoo oikeusjutustaan, jossa hänet tuomittiin vankeuteen Tsekeissä, kun hänen lavalta alas tönäisemänsä henkilö kuoli. Mies todettiin syyttömäksi kahden vankilassa vietetyn vuoden jälkeen.

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