[Not the musical group. Though I also enjoy them. Well, the two songs of theirs I've heard.]
New manifesto: I have resolved to stop trying to be meaningful and poignant and just try to have fun with my writing. If it feels like work it's going to read like it too, and so the new edict is FUN.
Poignant and meaningful will creep in regardless, because, mixed with levity, it's exactly the kind of thing I enjoy, but from here on out we dispense with Literary characters in Literary situations thinking Literary things.
It's high time I tried to tell an actual story. With, y'know, conflict and a plot.
It'll be fun! (It'll at least be interesting...)